36 of My Favorite Alice in Wonderland Quotes

Have you come across we’re all mad here quote? If you are not familiar with the story of Alice in Wonderland, you might be wondering what this phrase means. To learn more about this topic, continue reading.

Have you ever encountered anyone who lacks rational thought? Do you feel you are the only sane person in the world since everything around you is so absurd? That’s how Alice feels.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is still regarded as an excellent children’s book even though it was published in 1865.

In modern times, book quotes are almost as well-known as the novel itself.

After going through the rabbit hole and ending up in Wonderland, Alice embarks on the craziest trip while coming across a variety of peculiar creatures.

The journey into the ridiculousness that Alice takes is immensely captivating.

Here are some of our favourite quotes from characters in Alice in Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland Quotes

1. ”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 I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” – Lewis Carroll

2.”“Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -” “Or else what?” said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. “Or else it doesn’t, you know.” -Lewis Carroll

3. “Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could if only I knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few thing indeed were really impossible.

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

5. ”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

6. ”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” – Lewis Carroll

7. ”I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure. However, everything is queer today.”

8. ”Have I gone mad? I’m afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”- Lewis Carroll

9. ”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.”- Lewis Carroll

10. “If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there”- Lewis Carroll.

11.”“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 worthwhile finishing the game.”

12. “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she had quite forgotten how to speak good English). – The Pool of Tears

13. It is better to be feared than loved.”- Lewis Carroll

The Cheshire Cat Quotes

14. 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.”I don’t much care where ” Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”- Lewis Carroll

15. ”Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”

16. 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 its tail when it’s pleasing.

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. -Pig and Pepper

The Mad Hatter Quotes

17. ”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 can’t take more.” “You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “It’s very easy to take more than nothing.”

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18. The Eaglet Quotes

18. “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!” – A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

The White Rabbit Quotes

19. “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!” -The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

The Duchess Quotes

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

21. ”And the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be—or if you’d like it to 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.’” – The Mock Turtle’s Story

22. “Tut, tut, child,” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” -The Mock Turtle’s Story

23. 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.’” -The Mock Turtle’s Story

The March Hare Quotes

24. ”Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all around 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. – A Mad Tea-Party

The King of Hearts Quotes

25. 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.” – Alice’s Evidence

26. “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.” – Alice’s Evidence

27. “I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” – The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

28. “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
Everybody looked at Alice. “I’m not a mile high,” said Alice. “You are,” said the King.
“Nearly two miles high,” added the Queen.

“Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,” said Alice; “besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.” “It’s the oldest rule in the book,” said the King.
“Then it ought to be Number One,” said Alice. —Chapter 12, Alice’s Evidence

29. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Alice’s Evidence

The Queen of Hearts Quotes

30. ”No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” – Alice’s Evidence

31. 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. – The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

The Caterpillar Quotes

32. “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 can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir,” said Alice, “because I am not myself, you see.” —Chapter 5, Advice from a Caterpillar

The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon Quotes

33. 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 Mock Turtle’s Story

34. “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!” —Chapter 9, The Mock Turtle’s Story

The Lory Quotes

35. “I’m older than you, and must know better.” – A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

The Dodo Quotes

36. “The best way to explain it is to do it.” – A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

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