Quotes on Wonderland

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

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

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.

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

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

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."