Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

"Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!"

"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."

"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice."

"The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun."They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial."

"I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"

"When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one" Alice asked."We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!"

"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."

"Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home" when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it any further. | So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes a rather handsome pig, I think." And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, "if one only knew the right way to change them--" when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off."

"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone."

"What do you call yourself" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, "Nothing, just now."Think again," it said: "that won't do."Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what you call yourself" she said timidly, "I think that might help a little."I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here."So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight. "And dear me, you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed."

"Where should I go" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."

"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos"

"And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry,And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by,"The rest next time--" "It is next time!"The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland"

"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."

"Curiouser and curiouser."

"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!"

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."