Alice Quotes
288 Alice quotes by 153 unique authors
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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
— Richard Strauss
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"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't…
— Lewis Carroll
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and…
— Dennis Lehane
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All…
— Harvey Pekar
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I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died…
— Connie Willis
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That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in…
— Alan Watts
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Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins
— Unknown Author
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told…
— Martin Gardner
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That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the…
— Kent Haruf
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the…
— Stephen Leacock
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I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the…
— Dominick Dunne
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent…
— Jay Smith
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Mary Alice (voiceover): Competition, it means different things to different people. But whether it’s a friendly rivalry...or a fight to the death...the end result is…
— Mary Alice
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as…
— Joo Won
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I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books…
— Rebecca Godfrey
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'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little…
— Lewis Carroll
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"It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it,"…
— Lewis Carroll
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Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going…
— Michael Bruce
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Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with…
— Dan Jenkins
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To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.
— Unknown Author
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only…
— Adam Gopnik
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Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for…
— Calvin Trillin
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Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear…
— Dorothea Lasky
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If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering…
— Ben Ehrenreich
Who Wrote These Alice Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 288 Alice Quotes, led by these top contributors: