Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

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

I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

'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.'

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.