Top 49 The Hatter Quotes
#1. I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place on.
Lewis Carroll
#2. Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.
Lewis Carroll
#3. I don't think ... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll
#4. Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter.
"It isn't mine," said the Hatter.
"Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
"I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.
Lewis Carroll
#5. that the way you manage?' Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and
Lewis Carroll
#6. This was how we'd always played.
You were Cinderella, I was a mouse.
You were Alice, I was the Hatter.
You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.
David Levithan
#8. Very poor speaker," said the King. "You may go," said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court.
Lewis Carroll
#9. You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.
Lewis Carroll
#10. You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
'It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter[ ... ].
Lewis Carroll
#11. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.
Lewis Carroll
#12. How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#13. Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
Lewis Carroll
#14. When he spoke those words, it seemed to Julian that the hatter had put off falling in love with his wife until he had already lost her. 'You only love truly once in a lifetime, Julian, even if you aren't always aware of it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#15. That sounds impossible," said the hatter. "We absolutely must give it a try!
Robert McKay
#16. 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
#17. Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter
Lewis Carroll
#18. Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
"I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.
Diana Wynne Jones
#19. He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob."
I say nothing.
"He's a paragon schnitzophonic."
"He's what?!"
"Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al.
"You mean paranoid schizophrenic?"
"Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter ...
Sara Gruen
#21. To murder freedom ... well, that's to murder my time. And no one should have the right to kill anyone else's time.
Cassandra Kemper
#22. What's the point of doing what you're told if you have no choice in the matter?
Cassandra Kemper
#23. One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
Marissa Meyer
#24. Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.
The Mad Hatter
#25. Annoyed?" said Sophie. "Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?
Diana Wynne Jones
#26. Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy as a bedbug. Oh,
Liane Moriarty
#27. I told you she was the wrong Alice...
You've lost your muchness....
Hatter!!!!
Off With Their Head!!!
Linda Woolverton
#28. If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!)
Sarah J. Pepper
#29. Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
Lewis Carroll
#30. Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed!
Michel Faber
#31. It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
Johnny Depp
#32. Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea.
Lewis Carroll
#33. Madeline Hatter. Her lavender-streaked teal hair exploded around her in messy curls. The polka-dotted, striped, and lacy layers of her skirt were bunched and fluffed. Her teacup hat tilted low over one ear. "Whoops,
Shannon Hale
#35. I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
John Burnside
#36. Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
A.P. Herbert
#37. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke
#38. After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
Diana Wynne Jones
#40. Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
Lewis Carroll
#41. Oh
who's the Queen?"
"Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.
Rachel Caine
#43. Sophie got out the modish black-and-white, which was the only hat even remotely likely to interest this lady. The lady looked at it with contempt. "This one doesn't do anything for anybody. You're wasting my time, Miss Hatter." "Only because you came in and asked for hats," Sophie said.
Diana Wynne Jones
#44. Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection.
Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.
Frank Beddor
#45. Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.
Frank Beddor
#46. If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
Diana Wynne Jones
#47. My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#48. The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes ... "
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
Lewis Carroll
#49. Everything has beauty," she said, "but not everyone sees it." Her stomach hurt, her eyes burned. "I saw you, Hatter." Her words whispered through the night. "I saw you." She walked away.
Marie Hall
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