The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave...
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, Why is a raven like a writing-desk?Come, we shall have some fun now!, thought Alice. I'm glad they've begun asking riddles -...
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it m...
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!
Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home? when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it: it was...
Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!
If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter which road you take.
I'm a poor man, your majesty, the Hatter began in a weak voice, and I hadn't but just begun my tea, not more than a week or so, and what with the bread and butter so thin - and the twinkling of the te...
I love the stillness of the wood; I love the music of the rill:I love the couch in pensive modUpon some silent hill. Scarce heard, beneath yon arching trees, The silver-crested ripples pass; and, like...
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.' 'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, w...
How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
For instance, take the two words fuming and furious. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts in...
But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn'...
Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to...