59 Best Wonderland Quotes: Cheshire Cat & More
Venture into the whimsical world of Wonderland with the 59 Best Wonderland Quotes from the Cheshire Cat & More. Delve into the enigmatic wisdom of Lewis Carroll’s iconic characters, from mad musings to curious advice. Unravel the riddles of existence with these timeless lines from ‘Alice’s Adventures’ and ‘Through the Looking-Glass”.
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Though Alice is the main character in the books “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” there were definitely other favorites.
Best Wonderland Quotes: Mad Musings & Curious Advice
These are the greatest quotes of wit and witticisms from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland“. As well as the greatest and most memorable quotes from Disney’s Animated Movie & Tim Burton’s Alice Movies.
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Wonderland Quotes: Favorite Cheshire Cat Quotes
The Cheshire Cat, a captivating character from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‘ and ‘Through the Looking Glass,’ is known for his enigmatic wisdom and mischievous demeanor. With his iconic grinning presence and cryptic advice, he adds a touch of surreal mystery to Alice’s journey through these fantastical tales.
Best Cheshire Cat Quotes from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
“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.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
“Alice said, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where –” said Alice.“Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “– so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation. “Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
” What sort of people live about here?” “In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter” and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like; they’re both mad.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
“How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice. “Not at all,” said Alice.
Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
“It’s a friend of mine – a Cheshire Cat,” said Alice, “allow me to introduce it.” “I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King; “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I’d rather not,” the Cat remarked.
Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
Disney’s Animated Movie: Cheshire Cat Quotes
“Twas Brilig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“Can you stand on your head?”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“Oh, you can’t help that! Most everyone’s mad here.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“I want to go home. But I can’t find my way!” said Alice. “Naturally,” said the Cat, ” that’s because you have no way. Always here you see are the Queen’s ways.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“Some go this way. Some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short cut.”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“You know,” said the Cat “we could make her really angry. Shall we try?”… “Oh, but it’s loads of fun!”
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
“Well, she simply said, ‘You’re a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant!” – Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 1951
Favorite Cheshire Cat Quotes from Tim Burton’s Alice Movies
“You used to be much more… muchier. You’ve lost your muchness.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“It looks like you ran afoul of something with wicked claws.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“It needs to be purified by someone with evaporating skills or it will fester and putrefy.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“I never get involved in politics.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“You used to be the life of the party. You used to do the best Futterwacken in all of Wit’s End.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“I really do love that hat. I would wear it to all the finest occasions.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“And no scheme of ours can raise any sort of smile. We rather hoped you might help us save him.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016
“When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, When the clock strikes heavy and there’s no time for tea. And in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.”
Cheshire Cat, “Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016
Alice’s Odyssey: Memorable Quotes from Her Adventures
Though the whole book is filled with comical conversations with Alice, herself, and the other fun characters these are the best Wonderland quotes of all!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Quotes from Alice Herself
“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
– Alice from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
“No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison‘ or not…if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice.
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,” said Alice: “Besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.” `It’s the oldest rule in the book,’ said the King. “Then it ought to be Number One,” said Alice.
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”
Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Alice, “Through the Looking Glass”
Best Alice Quotes from Disney’s Animated Movie
“But that’s just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
“When I get home I shall write a book about this place.”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
“Three inches is such a wretched height.”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
“Well, I’ve had enough nonsense. I’m going home!”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
“I was just giving myself some good advice.”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”
Alice, “Alice in Wonderland” 1951
Best Alice Quotes from Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”
Who’s to say what is “proper”? What if it was agreed that “proper” was wearing a codfish on your head? Would you wear it?”
Alice Kingsley, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
“From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole I’ve been told where I must go and who I must be. I’ve been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuffed into a teapot.”
Alice Kingsley, “Alice in Wonderland” 2010
Notable quotes from the White Rabbit
“Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!”
– The White Rabbit, from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
“Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!”
The White Rabbit, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“Oh! The Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! Won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!”
The White Rabbit, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh, my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where CAN I have dropped them, I wonder?”
The White Rabbit, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
A Bit of Non-Sense: Quotes from the Duchess & More
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
– The Duchess, “Through the Looking Glass”
“I think I should understand that better,” Alice said very politely, “if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.” “That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,” the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
The Duchess, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Ah well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added “and the moral of that is — ‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves!'”
The Duchess, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1865
“Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!” And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.
The Eaglet, “Through the Looking Glass”
“A Mad Tea-Party”: Quotes From the Mad Hatter, March Hare, & More
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
– The Mad Hatter
“No room! No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice coming.”
The March Hare & Mad Hatter, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland“, 1865
“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.
The Mad Hatter & March Hare, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give up,” Alice replied. “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. “Nor I,” said the March Hare.
The Mad Hatter, March Hare, & Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.”
The Mad Hatter, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“Yes, that’s it,” said the Hatter with a sigh: “It’s always tea time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.”
The Mad Hatter, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“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.”
The Mad Hatter & Alice, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
“Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness!”
The Dormouse, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865
Embrace Wonderland’s Endearing Wisdom & Non-Sense
From the mischievous Cheshire Cat to curious Alice, let these whimsical words spark your imagination and inspire a journey into the fantastical. Uncover the magic within the pages and carry it into your own adventures.
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