Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?
And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
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.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.
Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don’t know. Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
Oh, you can’t help that,′ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.
The time has come The walrus said To talk of many things: Of shoes- and ships- And sealing wax- Of cabbages and kings- And why the sae is boiling hot- And whether pigs have wings.
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,? the Mock Turtle replied, ’and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.
He said he would come in,? the White Queen went on, ‘because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn’t such a thing in the house, that morning.’ Is there generally?? Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,? said the Queen.
Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up; if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m someone else.
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 my life!