That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.