Friday 13 November 2015

13th November: Alice in Wonderland

On this date in 1862, Lewis Carroll began writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 10 Quotes from the book:

  1. It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
  2. Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
  3. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
  4. I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
  5. If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
  6. My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.
  7. If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.
  8. Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
  9. You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.
  10. I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.


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