"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop |
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here." |
"Give your evidence," said the king |
"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does |
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision |
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it |
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings |
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued e |
''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. |
'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.' 'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,” said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.' |
'But then,' thought Alice. '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!' |
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice |
'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar |
'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' |
'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to |