Top 100 Quotes About Wonderland
#1. Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.
Simon Pegg
#2. When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her.
Linda Grant
#3. 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
#4. Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
Sylvia Plath
#5. Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!
Lewis Carroll
#6. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Lewis Carroll
#7. What you think, everyone look, Alice just wake up and oh fuck, no wonderland.
Stephanie Danler
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.
Lauren Oliver
#11. If a woman's heart is a labyrinth, mine is probably Wonderland.
Sofia Navarro
#12. His death notice included the mention that in 1880, he had married Alice in Wonderland. I like to think he would have been pleased at that, but the truth is he was the only one to whom this didn't matter at all.
Melanie Benjamin
#13. Dogwalking can lead o the most cruddy, crapped up areas of any town. But on a snowy day, all sins are covered, it's a WINTER WONDERLAND!
Carol Tyler
#14. Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing
turn your toes out when you walk
And remember who you are!
Lewis Carroll
#15. See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe.
I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home.
It makes me wonder if you practice your flow ...
One Be Lo
#16. Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography.
Terry Pratchett
#17. My body is far from a wonderland. My body is more like a pawnshop. There's a lot of interesting things put together, and if you look closely you'd probably be excited, but at first glance, not so much.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#18. Like a fable, Night when a Milky Way goes through the other Milky Way
My hope is standing
He walked with the speed of memories
Lewis Carroll
#19. If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll
#20. ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a plate called TASTE ME
And down she shrank so small.
And so she changed, while other folks
Never tried nothin' at all.
Shel Silverstein
#21. If all the people break, and all the world breaks, and everyone and everything goes mad, then I can be normal, just like everyone else, right?
Jun Mochizuki
#22. If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"
"Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.
Lewis Carroll
#23. You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.
Cameron Jace
#24. 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
#25. The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.
Frederick Lenz
#26. 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
#28. It's safe to say that Carroll's words weren't a stroke of luck, but of genius. Something in that book makes people relate. Wonderland must be real.
Cameron Jace
#29. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.
Gloria Steinem
#30. Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.
Matisyahu
#31. 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.
Paul Davies
#32. Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?
D.B.C. Pierre
#33. 'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.
Kathe Koja
#34. I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.
Helen Smith
#36. I'm about to be alone, deep inside Wonderland's garden of souls, with nothing but dead things for company.
A.G. Howard
#37. Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane.
Marie Hall
#39. The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#40. He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.
Michael Thomas Ford
#41. I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.
Lena Dunham
#42. In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.
Lewis Carroll
#43. Wonderland is violent and bizarre, but charming in its way. AnyElsewhere is a whole new level of cruelty.
A.G. Howard
#44. We apologise for interrupting your life but we have an important message from our sponsors the Konichiwa collective software, it's a waking sub routine,
Steve Merrick
#45. The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn't move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war.
Seanan McGuire
#46. 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.
John Gimlette
#47. I hadn't thought about that."He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. "Curiouser and curiouser."
Startled, I glanced at him. "I say that sometimes."
Even with his face tight with worry, Dad managed to look a little amused. "It's from Alice in Wonderland. Appropriate, don't you think?
Rachel Hawkins
#48. 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#49. I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
J.G. Ballard
#50. 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
#51. Novaleigh, you have fallen out of focus. Lost sight of who you are and what you truly want to be.
Brynn Myers
#52. The little girl just could not sleep
Because her thoughts were way too deep
Her mind had gone out for a stroll
And fallen down a rabbit hole.
Anonymous
#53. I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#54. It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!
Lewis Carroll
#56. For someone named Alice, you're really not all that up on your Wonderland trivia.
Elle Lothlorien
#57. Fuathan don't come out until after dark. Sunlight kills them.'
'Like vampires?'
'Kind of. Very mean, sub-aquatic vampires who don't need to drink your blood, but might do it anyway, just for fun.
Somerset McCoy
#58. Brave, impossible Alice. Stop being so sensible.
Emory R. Frie
#59. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Andy Wachowski
#60. The rabbit hole has collapsed, and my key is melded to a nugget of worthless metal.
A.G. Howard
#61. And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
D.B.C. Pierre
#62. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.
Haruki Murakami
#63. That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen ... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because ... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
Alan Watts
#64. Were practicality the explanation for my spontaneous hike, I could have sung my purpose that afternoon, 'Wanking in a Winter Wonderland.
Jim Provenzano
#65. Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
Haruki Murakami
#66. Someone should write a book about how Alice Liddell from Wonderland falls in love with Huckleberry Finn. I might rather want to read that book.
Heather Lyons
#67. I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe ... We are living in a wonderland age of science.
Bob Seger
#68. One thing more: Wonderland and I are the same. You love one of us, you love the other. You are Wonderland, too. Which means we are the perfect fit, in more ways than you can even imagine. On our day together, I'll take great pleasure in showing you all of them.
A.G. Howard
#69. A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
Jeanette Winterson
#70. Nothing can break the chains you have on my heart. For you are Wonderland.
A.G. Howard
#71. Attraction is an evil. It takes you to the wonderland that doesn't exist. The exit becomes tough, then.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#72. A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.
Ivan Sutherland
#73. I am here because I have to be here, as here I am supposed to be! All things should be, and usually are, found in their rightful places. Can you imagine how chaotic the world would be if nothing was in its correct place?
William O'Brien
#75. This is ridiculous! I am going to look like I just hopped out of the hooker version of Alice in Wonderland.
Jessica Fortunato
#76. I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
Gwen Stefani
#77. Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.
Cheshire Cat
#79. Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.
Johnny Depp
#81. That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
'Not quite right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; some of the words have got altered.'
'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
Lewis Carroll
#82. 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
#83. Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. "It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied.
Lewis Carroll
#84. That sounds impossible," said the hatter. "We absolutely must give it a try!
Robert McKay
#85. How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?
Mike Tucker
#86. 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
Lewis Carroll
#87. Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.
Adam Gopnik
#88. Be confident. Be successful. Be
beautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.
Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Be
educated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just be
you!
Russell Strand
#89. Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
A.A. Milne
#90. I feel like I'm in an entirely different world when I'm with you, a world I never knew existed before ... like I never knew it could be this way, that I could be this way." "That's why they call it Wonderland, Aphrodite.
J.M. Darhower
#91. Morpheus turns his face to the sky. "I'm afraid you're the one who's mistaken, if you think I'm going to let Wonderland fall to rot so you can play 'pin the male on the virgin' with your mortal toy.
A.G. Howard
#92. The heroes pop out at you, impossibly vivid, colorful as playing cards but all from different decks, a jumble of incompatible suits and denominations dealt out for an Alice in Wonderland game.
Austin Grossman
#93. 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
#95. I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.
Betty Who
#96. Can I go home now? Please?"
He grinned slightly. "No. Not until you acknowledge your pain and move passed it."
"This is crap, Oliver. I don't want to face anything. I don't need to be fixed.
Brynn Myers
#98. The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.
Stephanie Lovett Stoffel
#99. Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.
Susan Cain
#100. Oliver reached up for my hand and led me back into the living room area. "Can we try something?"
I rolled my eyes. "Do I really have a choice?"
"You always have a choice, Novi," Oliver said.
Brynn Myers
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