Top 100 Alice's 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." 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
Shweta Ganesh Kumar
#2. Are there any lions or tigers about here?' she asked timidly.
'It's only the Red King snoring,' said Tweedledee.
'Come and look at him!' the brothers cried, and they each took one of Alice's hands, and led her up to where the King was sleeping.
'Isn't he a LOVELY sight?' said Tweedledum.
Lewis Carroll
#3. I've a right to think," said Alice sharply.
"Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."
~ Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 ~
Lewis Carroll
#5. It was the strangest thing, but he was looking forward to everything so much, he could hardly stand it. He never would have believed it. He never thought he would.
"You know what?" He took Alice's hand. "Let's fly.
Lev Grossman
#6. They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault.
Liane Moriarty
#7. Few of us, however, have Alice's courage, at the end of the book, to stand up (literally)for our convictions and refuse to hold our tongue.
Alberto Manguel
#8. WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice's family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack and she sits up in bed to get a closer look at her thoughts, which have collected above her in the dark.
Barbara Kingsolver
#9. At then end of this experiment we call Alice's childhood, I imagine if she's as eager to move ahead with her passions as the graduates I'd just met, and as fond of her family as these kids seemed to be of theirs, I'll have my answer.
Quinn Cummings
#10. As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.
Chris Riddell
#11. Meet me at the pitcher pouring a thousand streams." Alice's phone was probably tapped. The strange, short phrase should confuse anyone who snooped on it. Anyone other than Alice.
Deva Long
#12. My father was a strange combination of drill instructor and Alice's white rabbit: he always had someplace important to go and enjoyed bossing everyone else around.
Katie McGarry
#13. A knife. A silver knife, like the one that had cut out Alice's heart.
Rachel Hawkins
#14. Do you really think these are Alice's tears?" I ask. "That I'm supposed to make them go away somehow?"
"I'm the wrong guy to ask. I just saw a skeleton with antlers and a forest of aphid-noshing flower zombies.
A.G. Howard
#15. I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.' Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156
Lewis Carroll
#16. Wonderland with all its palaces can be yours as well as Alice's.
John Biccard
#17. Just so you know, Alice's nurse's uniform is a pair of green scrubs. She looks like Gumby.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#18. Alice's razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don't understand how that kind of hair can be good. It doesn't move at all, or ripple like the water in Boca Chica when I throw shells at it.
Raquel Cepeda
#19. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Tara Crescent
#20. Michael put a deodorant in the car which Julie wished he would stop called,'Aunty Alice's anti-fart stick,' in front of the children.
Elizabeth M. Thompson
#21. Think of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' It is equally intoxicating for children and adults. All this 'crossover' talk is something publishers are using as a selling device - a kind of post hoc rationalisation of what was happening already.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#22. Alice's illness had turned her into the center of mass around which the rest of the family moved in anxious orbits, like unstable planets.
Lisa Kleypas
#23. He looked up into Daily Alice's placid and certain face, wondering why every deepening of these daily mysteries left him less inclined to probe them. "The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.
John Crowley
#24. Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn!
Reba McEntire
#25. Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Lewis Carroll
#26. The baby intern scaled the walls of her crib and spent most of the weekend getting up to speed on the negotiations with Senecorp so you'd have it first thing this morning. You'll find her sucking her thumb at Alice's desk.
Joey W. Hill
#27. Meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly ...
Lewis Carroll
#28. Alice's face widens in horror. I left my candy Coture bag on the table!' 'Oh, the tragedy! Smitty joins in, girlying it up. The dead people might be ... touching it!
Kirsty McKay
#29. Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "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.
Eoin Colfer
#30. That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.
Alice Hoffman
#31. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.
Alice Hoffman
#32. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
Kellyn Roth
#33. There was tremendous affection in Billy's eyes, or at least they held a tremendous offer of affection, a tremendous willingness to find whomever he was talking to bright and witty and better than most
Alice McDermott
#34. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.
Elle Lothlorien
#35. I'm not big on awareness about what's going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts.
Alice Eve
#36. It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
Alice Waters
#37. A supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women ... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.
Alice S. Rossi
#38. It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.
Alice Waters
#39. A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
Alice Dreger
#40. Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!
Lewis Carroll
#41. After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
Alice Walker
#42. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Lewis Carroll
#43. My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.
Alice Eve
#44. We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
Alice Waters
#45. She stands, her skirt taking a moment to fall down her leg, and I follow her, because right now she's my white rabbit...
Lia Hills
#46. I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the murky depths.
Down.
Down.
Down.
Brynn Myers
#47. The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus.
Alice Bailey
#49. That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
Alice Hoffman
#50. If one of these, if a hundred of them, a thousand, came too soon or failed to thrive or were born incomplete somehow, born blue or ill made or with reason's taut string already snapped, it was of little matter in the long history of God's bustling. There
Alice McDermott
#51. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.
Susan Meier
#52. Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
Alice Hoffman
#53. That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
Alice Hoffman
#54. Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
Alice Hoffman
#55. There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.
Alice Kuipers
#56. I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice.
Alice Sebold
#57. People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.
Alice Oswald
#58. Where's home, my Alice?" Hatcher said. "Where's home? We don't have a home, you and I.
Christina Henry
#59. Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.
Alice Bailey
#60. Grass-fed cattle are leaner. But it's not true that they are less flavorful.
Alice Waters
#61. You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
Alice Walker
#62. I think Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child is one of the books read by nearly every therapist. Everyone's jaw drops when they read Miller's dead-on description of why we became therapists. (...) I wish more people were familiar with her work.
Ryan Howes
#63. Alice interrupted. No tears, no secrets. I want the life I'm meant to have, Etta. It's as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectations or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices ...
Alexandra Bracken
#64. I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
Alice Lowe
#65. My wife always knows exactly," he said. There was a bit of tobacco on his wet lip. "But that's probably because she only lets me do it twice a year, Valentine's and my birthday, so it's not hard to figure." He stepped out the door and then turned to say, "I got two kids born in
Alice McDermott
#66. I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
Alice Walker
#67. He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her , too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.
Alice Hoffman
#68. ...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret.
Alice Oseman
#69. What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams ... conversations, nothing more.
Alice Englert
#70. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.
Mary Alice
#71. Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
Alice Walker
#72. Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.
Alice Hoffman
#73. The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
Alice Paul
#74. But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and you'll be free, free without anybody's by-your-leave. Do something to wash out the sin.
Alice Childress
#75. It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll
#76. There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#77. I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just ... womanish.
Alice Walker
#78. I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as a filmmaker is to tell someone that might not think it's going to work that, actually, it will work.
Alice Lowe
#79. Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
Alice Sebold
#80. The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker
#81. I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
Alice Sebold
#82. What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
Alice Walker
#83. Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that's who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
Alice Sebold
#84. Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark ... your words come out, and then nothing ... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.
Alice McDermott
#86. Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.' ... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
Alice Hoffman
#87. To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things ...
Paula Rego
#88. Men constantly feel hungry and women constantly feel sad. That's what marriage does to them. ~Teddy Butt, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Mohammed Hanif
#89. Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
#90. I think of the meaning of the word "testimony." Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.
Alice Walker
#91. It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.
Alice Cooper
#92. But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.
Alice Hoffman
#93. Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.
Alice Hoffman
#94. Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
#95. Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!
Alice Henderson
#96. One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's cat spoke. We were making brownies in the kitchen when we heard it say, 'Let me out.
Alice Hoffman
#97. If anyone bothered to search through the laurel bordering the asphalt he'd surely find handfuls of teeth that were said to give the laurel its odd milky color, ivory with a pale pink edge, each blossom forming the shape of a bitter man's mouth.
Alice Hoffman
#98. He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.
Alice Hoffman
#99. After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.
Alice McDermott
#100. 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
Rob Sheffield
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