Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.