Off with their heads!
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.[said the Gryphon in an impatient tone]
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
If you knew Time as well as I do, you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.[said the Hatter]
If you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
If you didn’t sign it, that only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.[said the King]
If there’s no meaning in it, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any.
If it had grown up, it would have been a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.[she said to herself]
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.[the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl]
I’m older than you, and must know better.
I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think-
I wish I hadn’t cried so much! I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.[said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out]
