» ''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
» ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
» I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
» Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
» And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
» The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
» Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
» What I tell you three times is true.
» When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
» It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.