Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Quotes

“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.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“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, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“The adventures first . . . explanations take such a dreadful time.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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