Celebrate Alice’s 150th birthday by reading our top 10 quotes from the nonsensical and magical world of Wonderland!
Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, turns 150 this year.
For a century and a half it has delighted and puzzled us in equal measure. We have fallen down the rabbit hole with Alice, taken tea with her and the Mad Hatter, been maddened by the Cheshire Cat and had to convince the Queen of Hearts that we didn’t steal her tarts!
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here.”
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
“First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; ‘for it might end, you know,’ said Alice to herself; ‘in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?’ And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”
“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”
“Off with their heads!”
“You used to be much more...muchier. You’ve lost your muchness.”
“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!”
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