Wonderland Quotes - Page 2

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 my life!

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

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.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

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

Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

Who ARE You?" 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.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

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

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key.

The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.

Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.

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.

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

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

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

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

We haven't any and you're too young.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.