💬 Quotes

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat."

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

"‘It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’"

"‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."

"‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’"

"‘Alice! Lavish not your time upon trifles,’ the Queen said, with a sudden change of tone. ‘Remember who you are, and what you must become.’"

"Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky; and the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die."

"The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."

"Man goes to man. He is neither gonul (frog) nor bullock. He is man. Let him go to his own people."

"My belly is heavier than yours, and yet I have not killed a little goat. I am an eater of clean things."

"Darkness covers the jungle, but Shere Khan the Big One is blind as a mole in the sun."

"Man-cub, they called me! Man-cub, they would call me in the futue. Well, I have returned to the man-pack."

"The greatest part of new nations have been unable to avoid the colonial yoke, and America is the only one which has been placed by Providence at a favorable moment to found a commonwealth."

"The people reign over the American political world as the Deity does over the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them."

"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of small enjoyments and petty pleasures, each of which taken separately cannot be called a great crime, but which together enervate, stunt, and depress the people."

"A democratic people is attached to equality at all times, but there are epochs when it is seized with a frantic passion for it; these are generally when the old social hierarchy, long threatened, completes its collapse."

"The American is impervious to a great number of notions, because he has his own settled opinions; he is full of knowledge, because he has made a vast accumulation of facts; but he is devoid of true philosophical method."

"There are many men in France who would willingly endure the despotism of an individual, but there are none who are ready to bear the regular and legal subordination of a hundred others."

"Ce que vous me dites paraîtra sans doute bizarre à bien des gens, mais il ne paraîtra pas extraordinaire à ceux qui ont du sentiment."

"La prudence ne sauroit garantir de tous les malheurs; il y a une destinée qu'on ne peut éviter."