Top 10 Quotes and Explanations from Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is a tale from Lewis Carroll who wrote it in 1864. The story has been such a huge success ever since and many movies and plays have been made based on it. This fairytale continues to have a great fan base. Its popularity is only increasing with big Hollywood directors and stars making yet another adaptation of the story. This time it will be directed by Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will be the outrageous character called the Mad Hatter.
The conversations between the incredible characters, which include people, animals and playing cards, are eccentric and funny. Some of their phrases have become extremely famous, some of them are considered absurd and some are clearly making fun of the Victorian era.
Here are the top 10 quotes with explanations where in the story they appear. They are in descending order beginning from number 10 and going to number one, the most famous quote of all.
Number 10 spot is given to Eaglet:
Alice and many animals and birds along with a Duck, Dodo, Lory and Eaglet swam from a lake that was actually a pool of Alice’s tears. While at the shore they were discussing how to get dry. Dodo was talking in business terms about adjourning the meeting and adopting more energetic remedies. To this Eaglet called out this quoted sentence:
“Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and I don’t believe you do either!” -Eaglet
Number 9 is a quote from Alice herself.
This takes place during the court scene. Alice argues with the Queen of Hearts about the order of a verdict and a sentence, and then Alice realizes that she is her normal size again and does not need to care what the Queen says. This is why she yells out:
“You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” -Alice
Number 8 is from the Duchess during the game of croquet after she is released from prison to take part in the game. Alice is quietly thinking about how pepper and other spices affect people.
The Duchess is trying to remember what kind of a moral there is in thinking and not speaking. Alice thinks that there is no moral in it. Therefore the Duchess teaches Alice that:
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” -The Duchess
Number 7 is a quote from the Mock Turtle. He, the Gryphon and Alice are at the sea shore. Alice tells them about her adventures of the day and how she was repeating a poem to the Caterpillar and how the words came out all wrong. The Gryphon is very interested and asks Alice to repeat a poem called “‘TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD”‘. Of course the words come out all different again. This is what the Mock Turtle calls it:
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.” -The Mock Turtle
At number 6 is a quote from the White Rabbit. Alice follows the White Rabbit into the rabbit hole and finds herself in a long corridor. She sees the White Rabbit hurrying down the passage. Alice sprints after him just in time to hear the White Rabbit say:
“Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” -White Rabbit
This quote is actually made very famous by Disney Films. They adapted the quote into a song by White Rabbit: ”I’m late, I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date!”
Number 5 place is given to a famous quote from the Queen of Hearts. She uses this expression quite often in the story. One time is when Alice meets the Queen for the first time. After Alice has introduced herself, the Queen asks her about the three playing card gardeners lying on the ground. But because Alice does not know them and expresses that to the Queen quite casually, the Queen of Hearts gets furious and screams to Alice:
“Off with her head!” -Queen of Hearts
At number 4 is a quote from the King of Hearts. This happens at the hearing in court while the King asks the White Rabbit to read a set of verses in a letter, written by the prisoner to somebody. The White Rabbit does not know where to begin.
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” -The King
On the third spot is quite an odd question by the Mad Hatter.
Alice is at the March Hare’s house and the Mad Hatter is there with Dormouse as well. They are having a tea party. The March Hare and Alice get into an argument about Alice’s right to join the tea party. Then the Mad Hatter makes Alice even more furious by telling her she needs a haircut. Of course Alice declares that to be rude, but the Mad Hatter answers her with a riddle:
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?” -The Mad Hatter
Here we are, getting closer to the best quotes of them all. At number 2 position is a short and famous exclamation from Alice.
Alice eats a cake and expects something peculiar to happen to her. And finally her neck grows and grows so much that in the end she does not even see her own feet. Alice is so surprised that for a moment she forgets to speak good English and cries out:
“Curiouser and curiouser.” -Alice
Finally, number one, the most famous Alice in Wonderland quote.
This quote comes from a conversation between Cheshire Cat and Alice. The grinning Cheshire Cat is giving directions to Alice and tells what sort of people live in each direction in the woods.
Then he discloses as a matter of fact that:
“We’re all mad here.” -Cheshire Cat
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oh I kno!!!
aaack its killing me XDD
*steals the clips from tim burton* >:]
I'm VERY excited about the new 'Alice in Wonderland' movie! I watched the trailer over and over! I'm completely obsessed. I love Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.
I've seen the new Harry Potter movie. In my opinion, it is definitely worth seeing. It was really good.
hhehehe thanks<3
But I dont want to go among mad ppl
lol
i would buy it for $100 dollars if he wants to sell it to me.
I looked and could only find the 1951 version, sorry. I had no idea that it was remade in 1999. I heard that it was going to be remade again next year, directed by Tim Burton.
Yes, it is all very surreal to me too. I think the Mad Hatter is the presidential candidate that chose her for VP.
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In the movie, you see a sign 'Don't step on the mome raths', which points to these creatures. So they are supposed to be mome raths.
(They don't spell out words, they form an arrow)
Originally, in the book, they were a different kind of creature: a sort of green pig that has lost his way
Try ebay or amazon. Sometimes you can find interesting things there.
I am both a former literature major and an Austen fan, as well as a writer. Pride and Prejudice has been established by many literary critics as a book of literary merit. Said merit lies in Austen's expert characterization, good use of plot and great eye for human behavior and heart for conflict, as well as her tremendous humor, spot-on use of irony and sarcasm. Her wit, sometimes mordant, is delicious. So, yeah, this is a book of literary merit as is Sense and Sensibility, and even Emma.
Alice in Wonderland is a classic of children's literature and a definite book of literary merit. It showcases Lewis Carroll's talent for finding the sublime in the mundane and elevating nonsense to an art form. The case could even be argued that it is one of the first fantasy novels. It is also a fantastic (pun intended) study in linguistics and the ambiguity and sometimes arbitrary nature of expression.
Other books of literary merit: Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations. Melville's Moby Dick (though I find it quite boring). The Scarlet Letter; To Kill A Mockingbird; Heart of Darkness; A Confederacy of Dunces; The Kite Runner (being more modern does not make a book less worthy). The Handmaid's Tale; Things Fall Apart; Brave New World; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and The Fury (almost anything by Faulkner). The Sun Also Rises; The Sound of Waves; A Lesson Before Dying; Beloved; Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe; How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; Huckleberry Finn; The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe; One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Heres some big flower stickups
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Flower chair
http://mariesmanor.hotusa.org/Garden/ThemedBedroomsPage1.html
Or you could put up a garden mural on one wall,
http://mariesmanor.hotusa.org/Garden/Bedroom_Decor.html
and decorate the rest of the walls with the flower stickups.
heres a cute alice in wonderland wall clock
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Found some big butterfly stickups
http://girlsthemebedrooms.com/fairy/fairy-woodland-bedroom-decorating-ideas.html
Also have a look through bedroom picture links for some more ideas you could use in your room
This site has alice in wonderland murals
http://www.muralsyourway.com/?mmwaf=10208
You could also use big flowers bedding
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Add a bit more fun to the bedroom with
King of Spades Child's Arm Chair
Queen of Hearts Arm chair
http://mariesmanordecorating.com/casino/lasvegas-casino-theme-bedrooms-casino-theme-home-decor.html
Hope these ideas help you a little. Have fun creating your fantasy escape.
With all due respect have you ever viewed the Disney Version???
I have; a hundred or more times with my daughter.
I recall Alice having at least ONCE,,, a pale blue dress with some form of an apron, with scallops? Yikes why am I even answering this? LOL.
The DRESS was probably a V or Boat neck, with the embellishments in white lace or whatever, such as frilly or flouncy collar and maybe on the ends of SHORT sleeves.. The apron was designed as a metaphor for her REAL life versus her wandering into dreams.
first to comment since i’m ur bff and i beat those subscribers xD.
i like it 8D.
…Why don't you go try and read it???????
And if it's a BOOK project I'm sure it should be about the book.
Cool. We're doing this for our Homecoming this year. I'm going to just paste you what we're doing and then you can go with it for your event:
What’s been thought of is to have the entrance/ticket area/food tables be like the Mad Hatter’s tea party. We’d have black and white checkered tablecloths on the tables. On the food & drink table, label the items ‘Eat Me’ and ‘Drink Me’ (I found this woman who makes cotton ribbon with those printed on it that we could cut out and tag the items with, and it’s really cheap). We can stack and glue brightly colored dishes and place them as decorations on the food & drink table or just have tea pots and cups & saucers on that table. Then we could have silver, reflective strands at the entrance to the auditorium and have a sign saying 'Enter Through the Looking Glass.’ On either side of the doors we could have bushes (little trees or whatever – fake obviously) with red and white roses, as if they paused while 'painting the roses red.'
The auditorium is where we could run with the playing cards/Queen of Hearts theme. The decorations that have been found as far as this goes include: 18’” playing cards (maybe hung on the walls, from the ceiling, or above the stage), balloons in the shape of the suits, red, white, & black balloons, red, white, & black lights, and garland in the shape of the suits. Portia has suggested that we use mirrors to incorporate the Through the Looking Glass theme, which would be awesome, so keep that in mind when it comes to any comments.
We’ve got a cool idea for the announcements and the posters. It’d say:
You are cordially invited to join us in Wonderland for the —- 2009 Homecoming dance on Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. Follow the white rabbit to the ticket tables and buy your tickets in advance. Hurry up, don’t be too late or it’ll be off with your heads!
***You can of course edit this to your party
As far as favors go, we can either get bead necklaces in the shapes of the suits in black & red or get round bead necklaces in black, silver, & red. The round beads are cheaper, but it’s just a matter of how much money we’re devoting to the decorations on the whole.
I’d also like to try and incorporate the theme into the King and Queen thing, i.e. having the King’s crown be like the Mad Hatter’s top hat and the Queen’s tiara be like Alice’s headband or something. It’d just be for show since we’ve got actual crowns and tiaras, too.
Another cool idea, maybe for your event, would be to have a glass top table and put playing cards underneath the glass. This way you could have the array of Alice in Wonderland things without them cluttering your tables.
Put up signs that say 'This Way' and 'That Way' throughout the house. Put a sign saying 'Enter Wonderland Through the Looking Glass' at the entrance.
You could give out awards to those that incorporate the theme the best into their dress. I've got all of the websites for these things and the prices written down, so if you're interested, contact me and I can send you the list. Everything we're getting is surprisingly inexpensive, but you won't need all of this stuff (unless you like doing things big). We're still in the works right now, so we're getting more each day. I'd love to help and maybe we could exchange ideas.
Good luck!
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"
Fom the song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Good evening, Mrs. Audience,
And Mr. Audience, too;
I hope you're glad to see me,
And will like me 'fore I'm through.
I'm here to bid you welcome,
I'm sure I like your style;
We'll soon become right friendly
If you will only smile.
I'll try to entertain you
With monologue and rhyme–
But if you won't assist me
We'll have a dreadful time.
The world is full of worry,
Let's forget it for a while,
And take a trip to Funland–
So stretch your mouth and smile.
Some speakers talk of trouble,
Of pessimistic creeds,
But just an S-M-I-L-E [spell]
Is all the old world needs.
Be gay, enthusiastic,
And cheerful all the while,
Forget your gloom and worries,
And smile, smile, smile!
And now the ice is broken,
We're friends, that's how it stands,
And if you feel as I do,
You'll tell me with your hands, [Pantomimes applause]
With song and jest and story,
I shall an hour beguile;
I'll do my best to please you,
If you'll smile, smile, smile!
It is like a childrens monologue because 'Alice in Wonderland' is a childrens production.
i cant wait 2 watch this movie…
DD
*cough* in 2010 *cough* >__>