Quotes by author and book

• Edward Lear: '"The Old Man with a Beard":'
• Edward Lear: '"The Old Person of Ischia":'
• Edward Lear: '"The Young Lady of Hull":'
• Edward Lear: '"The Young Lady of Russia":'
• Edward Lear: '"The Old Man in a Tree":'
• The Cheshire Cat: '"Visit either you like: they're both mad."'
• The Cheshire Cat: '"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."'
• The Footman: '"There might be some sense to your knocking," said the Footman, "if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were inside, you might knock and I could let you out, you know."'
• Alice: '"How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?"'
• The March Hare and Dormouse: '"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"'
• The Cheshire Cat: '"Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do – some… don't ever want to."'
• Alice: '"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!"'
• Alice: '"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 worth while finishing the game."'
• Unspecified: '"I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin."'
• The Duchess: '"And the moral of that is—'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.'"'
• The Eaglet: '"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!"'
• All by Lewis Carroll in Alice and wonderland
• The White Queen: 'Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast'
• The Duchess: 'If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does'
• Alice: 'I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then'
• The King of Hearts: 'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop'
• Alice: 'It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then'
• Alice: 'Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle'
• Dr. Seuss: 'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.'
• The White Rabbit: 'The hurrier I go, the behinder I get'
• Dr. Seuss: 'You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.'
• Dr. Seuss: 'Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.'
• The White Queen: 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards'
• Dr. Seuss: 'Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!'
• The Cheshire Cat: 'I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours'
• Dr. Seuss: 'It's better to know how to learn than to know.'
• Dr. Seuss: 'You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.'
• Dr. Seuss: 'A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.'
• Dr. Seuss: 'If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.'
• the prince: 'One day [the prince] lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this, they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes.'
• the narrator: 'Perhaps the best thing for the princess would have been to fall in love. But how a princess who had no gravity could fall into anything is a difficulty–perhaps the difficulty.'
• the prince: 'He had fallen in love with her almost, already; for her anger made her more charming than anyone else had ever beheld her; and, as far as he could see, which certainly was not far, she had not a single fault about her, except, of course, that she had not any gravity. No prince, however, would judge a princess by weight.'
• the princess and the king: 'Then we're all happy." "That we are indeed!" answered the princess, sobbing.'
• Dr. Seuss: 'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.'
• the king and the queen: '"Tis a good thing to be light-handed," said the king. "'Tis a bad thing to be light-fingered," answered the queen. "'Tis a good thing to be light-footed," said the king. "'Tis a bad thing–" began the queen; but the king interrupted her. "In fact, it is a good thing altogether to be light-bodied." "But it is a bad thing altogether to be light-minded," retorted the queen, who was beginning to lose her temper. This last answer quite discomfited his Majesty, who turned on his heel and betook himself to his counting-house again. But he was not half-way towards it when the voice of his queen overtook him. "And it's a bad thing to be light-haired," screamed she, determined to have more last words, now that her spirit was roused.'