Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

We haven't any and you're too young.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

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

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural