Alice In Wonderland Book Quotes

• The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Yesterday, Cooking

  Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking, Silence, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics

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• 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Reading, Wonderland

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

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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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• Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Said

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Thinking, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

  Lewis Carroll

  Doe, Wonderland, World

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

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• I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Patience, Adventure, Adventurous Life

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• You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, People, Mad

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• If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

  Lewis Carroll

  Wise, Would Be, Wonderland

  "Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.

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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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• Why is a raven like a writing desk?

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Mad

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865).

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  I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Change, Time

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Mad, People

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Success, Art

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.13, Bibliolis Books

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• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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• Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

  1865 The Duchess. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.

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• 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, Wish, Wonderland

  "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Book by Lewis Carroll, December 27, 1871.

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

  Lewis Carroll

  Nice, Would Be, Wonderland

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