85+ Alice in Wonderland quotes full of curiosity, adventure and a touch of madness

Alice in Wonderland quotes

Unlock the enchanting world of 'Alice in Wonderland' through the looking glass of iconic characters' voices!

Delve into our treasure trove of 'Alice in Wonderland quotes' directly from Alice herself, the whimsical Mad Hatter, the enigmatic Cheshire Cat, and a colorful cast of unforgettable personalities.

Step into the magical realm of Lewis Carroll's imagination as we unveil over 85 captivating quotes, each revealing the essence of wonder, wisdom, and delightful absurdity that continues to enthrall readers worldwide.

Prepare to immerse yourself in a journey of whimsy and wisdom, exploring the depths of this timeless classic one memorable quote at a time.

Alice in Wonderland quotes from Alice

“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

"But that's just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."

“How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think—”

"Oh, dear. I do wish I hadn't cried so much."

It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.”

"For if one drinks much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it's almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later."

"Curiouser and curiouser!"

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

“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

"Well, I’ve had enough nonsense. I’m going home!"

“I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is ‘What?’”

“I do wish I hadn’t drunk quite so much!” "When I get home I shall write a book about this place."

“When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

"I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I'm not myself, you know."

"Well, I can’t put it any more clearly, sir, for it isn't clear to me."

“How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice. “Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on “—likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.”

"But how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?"

"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?"

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Alice in Wonderland quotes from Mad Hatter

“The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.”

“Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t think—” “Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I ca’n’t take more.” “You mean you ca’n’t take less,” said the Hatter: “It’s very easy to take more than nothing.”

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”

"Twinkle twinkle little bat. How I wonder what you're at. Up and above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky."

"You can always take more than nothing.''

“Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.”

Alice in Wonderland quotes from White Rabbit

“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!”

"I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say ‘hello, goodbye,’ I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!"

“Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”

"Oh, my fur and whiskers! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"

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Alice in Wonderland quotes from Cheshire Cat

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”

“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go. Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere. The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”

“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.” “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

“If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.”

“Alice: Where Should I go? Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up?”

“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?” “I suppose so,” said Alice. “Well, then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.” “I call it purring, not growling,” said Alice. “Call it what you like,” said the Cat.

"Can you stand on your head?"

"Lose something?"

"Most everyone's mad here."

"You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself."

Alice in Wonderland quotes from Caterpillar

“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” “What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar, sternly. “Explain yourself!” “I ca’n’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir,” said Alice, “because I am not myself, you see.”

"The mushroom, of course!"

“Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.”

“I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.”

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Queen of Hearts Alice in Wonderland quotes

The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming “Off with her head! Off with—” “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent

“No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

“There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
”

"Curtsey while you're thinking. It saves time."

"That's enough! Off with their heads!"

"Who's been painting my roses red?"

"Someone's head will roll for this!"

The Eaglet Quotes

Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!”

THE LORY QUOTES

“I’m older than you, and must know better.”

THE DODO QUOTES

“The best way to explain it is to do it.”

THE DUCHESS QUOTES

“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”

“You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark.

“Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”

“And the moral of that is—’Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love, that makes the world go round!’” “Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!” “Ah well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of that is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’”

“And the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’”

“Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”

THE MARCH HARE QUOTES

"If you don't think, you shouldn't talk!"

"I have an excellent idea! Let's change the subject."

"A very merry unbirthday to you!"

“Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. “I don’t see any wine,” she remarked. “There isn’t any,” said the March Hare. “Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,” said Alice angrily. “It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,” said the March Hare.

“Take some more tea,"

"Ah, but it's very rude to sit down without being invited."

"She doesn’t know what an unbirthday is!"

"Careful, she's stark raving mad."

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.

THE MOCK TURTLE AND THE GRYPHON QUOTES

“When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then,” we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle—we used to call him Tortoise—” “Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn’t one?” asked Alice. “We called him Tortoise because he taught us,” said the Mock Turtle angrily. “Really you are very dull!”

“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so on.” “What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice. “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”

THE KING OF HEARTS QUOTES

“I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.”

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

“If you didn’t sign it,” said the King, “that only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”

“If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any.”

The Doorknob Quotes

"Come, come now. Crying won't help."

"Nothing's impossible!"

"Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassable."

“Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”

Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum Quotes

"That's logic!"

Creepy Alice in Wonderland quotes

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

If I’m too quiet and smiling you might want to run

When you can’t look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark

We’re all mad here

It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then

“Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some… don’t ever want to.”

The proper order of things is often a mystery to me

“All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea.”

“You are too naïve if you do believe life is innocent laughter and fun.”

“The shadows should be here soon. Are you prepared for the worst? If not, too bad!”

In closing, 'Alice in Wonderland' remains an incredible source of inspiration, its quotes serving as timeless capsules of wit, wisdom and inspiration.

Each line invites us to revisit the whimsical world crafted by Lewis Carroll, reminding us that curiosity, imagination, and a touch of madness can illuminate the path to endless wonder and discovery.

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