Red Queen Quotes

• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Somewhere Else, Wonderland

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 2 (1872)

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• "I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Work, Done

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• The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Would Be, May

  1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch.2,'The Garden of Live Flowers'.

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• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Thinking, Feminist

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophical, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1976). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: Musical”, p.13, Dramatic Publishing

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• She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

  Truman Capote

  Queens, Wonderland, Flamingos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Queens, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

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• "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Science, Knives

  Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”

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• Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

  Lewis Carroll

  Math, Knives, Division

  Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.189

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• "Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Math, White

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.188, Race Point Pub

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• To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Glasses, Hands

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, p.100, Oberon Books

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• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

  Ursula Vernon

  Queens, Book, Fate

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