Top 64 Cheshire's Quotes
#1. Cheshire's fingers, cold and slightly damp, stroked down the scar on her cheek. She swallowed the shudder of revulsion at his touch.
"Yes," Cheshire said. "He marked you so that he would know you again, and know that you belong to him."
"I belong to no one," Alice said.
Christina Henry
#2. She didn't have to be Cheshire's ideal of a Magician or Hatcher's ideal of a lover or her parents' ideal of a daughter. She could be Alice.
Christina Henry
#3. I stared at him over the rim of my mug and didn't say anything.
Gideon shoved his shirttails into his slacks with obvious frustration. "Fine."
"Thank you."
"You could refrain from grinning like the Cheshire cat," he muttered.
Sylvia Day
#4. If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.
Cheshire Cat
#5. [On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.
Maxine Cheshire
#6. Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!
Cheshire Cat
#7. I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.
Cheshire Cat
#8. Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?
Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.
Marissa Meyer
#9. I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.
Cheshire Cat
#10. Bye Caspian!' I called out. He stopped, and threw me a big grin over his shoulder. I grinned back like the Cheshire cat. What was it about him that made me feel so ridiculously happy?
Jessica Verday
#11. Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.
Maxine Cheshire
#12. When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
Jack Kerouac
#13. Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?
Lewis Carroll
#14. To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.
Cheshire Cat
#15. Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.
Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.
Anthea Carson
#16. Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
Simon Cheshire
#17. Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead ... Pursue Rabbit!
Cheshire Cat
#18. The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone ... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.
Cheshire Cat
#19. One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.
Lewis Carroll
#20. In the place called Adulthood there are no Cheshire Cats ... for they can't endure the suffering of the place.
John Logan
#21. A rose is still a rose, even hidden under different petals.
Erin R. Bedford
#22. To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.
Bruce Springsteen
#23. I'm afraid I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. You're on your own, girl.
Cheshire Cat
#24. Those who say there's nothing like a nice cup of tea for calming the nerves never had *real* tea. It's like a syringe of adrenaline straight to the heart!
Cheshire Cat
#25. My father told us:
The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.
Mariam Cheshire
#26. In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he'd lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.
Sharon Kay Penman
#27. I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
Lewis Carroll
#28. You know ... it always seems obvious to outsiders when someone is doing something wrong, but when your mind is in the midst of evil, it is easy to be manipulated by crueller instincts.
Cassandra Kemper
#29. The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
Jean Baudrillard
#30. Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.
Lewis Carroll
#31. Gran follows recipes by looking at picture - to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.
Simon Cheshire
#32. Angela Montgomery was in the hall, shadows and her own long black hair wrapping around her. Ash could see only her face, which gave the impression that she was a beautiful human Cheshire cat, come not to smile but to look deeply disdainful of everything.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#33. She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
Lewis Carroll
#34. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.
Daniel Coleman
#35. That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.
Cheshire Cat
#36. The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?
Cheshire Cat
#37. That's good. Because you're going to be my assistant." He grins like a Cheshire cat.
I raise my eyebrows in surprise. "I am?"
"Yep, I'm going to put my hands all over that body of yours in the front of the room and you're going to kick my ass.
Vi Keeland
#38. The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.
Lewis Carroll
#39. The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.
Cheshire Cat
#40. But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.
Marissa Meyer
#41. I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.
Anthony Browne
#42. Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.
Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do.
Rod Espinosa
#43. In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.
Maxine Cheshire
#44. Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
William Safire
#46. The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.
Maxine Cheshire
#47. I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never died, then you cannot possibly know if you would go on living a second life, or go on living no more lives.
Cassandra Kemper
#48. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Parry of 2nd Battalion the Cheshire Regiment at once requisitioned 'extra attractive women' from the cantonment magistrate at Amballa, arguing that he had only six women for 400 men.
Richard Holmes
#49. Her eyes lit up with wicked glee. "You know what's easier than trying to sneak in?"
I shook my head, her Cheshire grin worrying me.
"Getting caught on purpose.
Lori Brighton
#50. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.
Julian Huxley
#51. I do love irony. It's so ... complicated and coincidental.
Cassandra Kemper
#52. Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.
Cheshire Cat
#53. Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.
Cheshire Cat
#54. City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.
Robert Gottlieb
#55. I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.
Thom Yorke
#56. The irony of life, the Cheshire commented. Like Carroll, the Cheshire was capable of being anyone, anytime he wanted, except one person, himself, because he never knew who he really was.
Cameron Jace
#57. How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?
Simon Cheshire
#58. They were easy to distinguish from one another, these two groups. The voters wore frowns and invariably seemed lost. The lobbyists were the ones with the Cheshire Cat grins who navigated the halls more confidently than even the newly elected.
Hugh Howey
#59. She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
Lewis Carroll
#60. Goes to show you can't judge a fish by the hook in it's mouth.
Erin R. Bedford
#61. You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.
Simon Cheshire
#62. 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!
Cheshire Cat
#63. Alice: Where Should I go?
Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up?
Lewis Carroll
#64. [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.
Maxine Cheshire
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