50 Inspiring Alice in Wonderland Quotes to Spark Your Imagination

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I don’t much care where— Then it doesn’t matter which way you go, said the Cat. —so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you’re sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough."

- The Cheshire Cat

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Lewis Carroll

"But I don’t want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can’t help that, said the Cat. We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. How do you know that I’m mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here."

- The Cheshire Cat

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."

- Lewis Carroll

"Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

- Lewis Carroll

"It's no use trying," Alice said: "one can't believe impossible things."

- Alice

"If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there."

- The Cheshire Cat

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

- Alice

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

- The Cheshire Cat

"Every adventure requires a first step."

- Cheshire Cat

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carol

"We're all mad here."

- The Cheshire Cat

"Curiouser and curiouser!"

- Alice

"Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are."

- The Mad Hatter

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here."

- The Cheshire Cat

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

- The White Queen

"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

"Where should I go? -Alice. That depends on where you want to end up. - The Cheshire Cat."

- Lewis Carroll

"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly; but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."

- Lewis Carroll

"Cheshire Puss, she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. Come, it's pleased so far, thought Alice, and she went on. Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I don't much care where— said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat. —so long as I get SOMEWHERE, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you're sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough."

- Lewis Carroll

"Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Lewis Carroll

"And how do you know that you're mad? 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."

- Lewis Carroll

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."

- Lewis Carroll

"Curiouser and curiouser! Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."

- Lewis Carroll

"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

- Lewis Carroll

"Curiouser and curiouser."

- Lewis Carroll

"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?"

- Lewis Carroll

"Why, the best way to explain it is to do it."

- The Dodo

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."

- The Duchess

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

- The Duchess

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."

- Lewis Carroll

"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

- Alice

"I don't think— Then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."

- The Mad Hatter

"If you knew Time as well as I do... you wouldn’t talk about wasting it."

- The Mad Hatter

"Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied; at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. Why, you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!"

- The March Hare, Alice, and the Mad Hatter

"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!"

- Lewis Carroll

"Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it."

- The Duchess

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before! Well, now that we have seen each other, if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."

- Lewis Carroll

"Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Lewis Carroll

"You're not the same as you were before, he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness."

- Lewis Carroll

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, says the White Queen to Alice."

- Lewis Carroll

"Come back! the Caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar."

- Lewis Carroll

"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?"

- Lewis Carroll

"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."

- The White Rabbit

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.""

- Lewis Carroll

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

- Jane Austen

"Begin at the beginning...and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

- The King of Hearts

"Contrariwise, 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."

- Lewis Carroll

"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."

- Lewis Carroll

"Do you suppose she's a wildflower?"

- Lewis Carroll

"The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"

- Lewis Carroll

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

- The King of Hearts

"Off with their heads!"

- The Queen of Hearts

"You know you say things are ‘much of a muchness’—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?"

- The Dormouse

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

- The Eaglet

"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."