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

But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?’

whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

‘My name is Alice, but –’
‘It’s a stupid name enough!’

‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for halfanhour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!’

you would if you could,” you know.’

If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’

‘Well, then,’ the Cat went on, ‘you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.’

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’

‘If everybody minded their own business,’ the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ‘the world would go round a deal faster than it does