| Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass are such great books with a great many good quotes! What are your favorite? Some of my favorites are.... "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see." - Alice "We're all mad here." - C. Cat "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" - Alice "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - The King |
 R.I.P J.D. Salinger <3 |
| "We're all mad here". He's so cool. |
| "Down the Rabbit-Hole," the Chapter 1 title, has become a popular term for going on an adventure into the unknown. In drug culture, "going down the rabbit hole" is a metaphor for taking hallucinogenic drugs, as Carroll's novel appears similar in form to a drug trip. Many other answers are listed in The Annotated Alice. In Frank Beddor's novel Seeing Redd, the main antagonist, Queen Redd (amegalomaniac parody of the Queen of Hearts) meets Lewis Carroll and declares that the answer to the riddle is "Because I say so." Carroll is too terrified to contradict her. Arguably the most famous quote is used when the Queen of Hearts screams "Off with her head!" at Alice (and everyone else she feels slightly annoyed with). Possibly Carroll here was echoing a scene in Shakespeare's Richard III (III, iv, 76) where Richard demands the execution of Lord Hastings, crying "Off with his head!" When Alice is growing taller after eating the cake labelled "Eat me" she says, "curiouser and curiouser," a famous line that is still used today to describe an event with extraordinary wonder. The Cheshire Cat confirms to Alice "We're all mad here," a line that has been repeated for years as a result. In Chapter 6, the Cheshire Cat's disappearance prompts Alice to say one of her most memorable lines: "...a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!" In Chapter 7, the Hatter gives his famous riddle without an answer: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Although Carroll intended the riddle to have no solution, in a new preface to the 1896 edition of Alice, he proposes several answers: "Because it can produce a few notes, though… they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!" (Note the spelling of "never" as "nevar"—turning it into "raven" when inverted. This spelling, however, was "corrected" in later editions to "never" and Carroll's pun was lost.) Puzzle expert Sam Loydoffered the following solutions: § Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes § Poe wrote on both § They both have inky quills ("inkwells") § Bills and tales ("tails") are among their characteristics § Because they both stand on their legs, conceal their steels ("steals"), and ought to be made to shut up |
| "Off with her head!" I just kept saying that the whole day when I watched the movie xD *Alice in Wonderland / Tim Burton* |
| I got a few from different Alice in wonderlands: in the game 'Alice': Alice: You've gone quite mangy, cat... but your grin's a comfort. Cheshire Cat: And you've picked up a bit of an attitude, still curious and willing to learn, I hope. in the movie: Cheshire Cat: You know? We could make her *really* angry! Shall we try? Alice: Oh, no, no! Cheshire Cat: Oh, but it's loads of fun! In the new movie: Cheshire Cat: What do you call yourself? Alice Kingsley: Alice. Cheshire Cat: *The* Alice? Alice Kingsley: There's been some debate about that. Cheshire Cat: I never get involved in politics. The Red Queen: How would you like to have your head hacked off? The Mad Hatter: [chuckles] The Red Queen: Stop that In the book: White Rabbit: "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!" |
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