19 of the Best Alice in Wonderland Book Quotes
Here are 20 of the very best quotes from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Born in 1832, Lewis Carroll was the pen name of University of Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgeson. He began his writing career in 1865 with Alice in Wonderland, following up with sequel Through the Looking Glass in 1872.
Carroll was famously inspired to write Alice in Wonderland by family friend Alice Pleasance Liddell, who was a young girl at the time.
The book has been enormously popular since publication, having been translated into at least 174 languages. The tale has also been adapted into many films and stage productions, influencing arts and culture around the world.
Lewis Carroll died of pneumonia in 1898, and was buried at Mount Cemetery in Guildford, Surrey.
Here are 20 of the very best quotes from Alice in Wonderland, split into two categories: realistic and nonsensical.
Quotes About Life
“I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.”
“Every adventure requires a first step.”
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.”
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does”
“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it”
“Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some… don’t ever want to.”
Nonsensical Quotes
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”
“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 contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)”
“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
“The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings”
“Off with their heads!”
“You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.”
“Never let anyone drive you crazy; it is nearby anyway and the walk is good for you”
“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin, thought Alice; but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”
“We're all mad here.”
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