Quotes, cited — and corrected

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

Alice — Wonderland, ch. 2, its opening line

“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!”

The White Rabbit — Wonderland, ch. 1

“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

The Cheshire Cat — Wonderland, ch. 6

“Off with her head!”

The Queen of Hearts — Wonderland, ch. 8 and throughout

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”

Alice — Wonderland, ch. 2

“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

The King of Hearts — Wonderland, ch. 12

“Sentence first — verdict afterwards.”

The Queen of Hearts — Wonderland, ch. 12

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Alice — Wonderland, ch. 10 (usually misquoted as “I can’t go back to yesterday…”)

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

The White Queen — Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 5 (the sequel, not Wonderland)

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

Not in Carroll. It is a paraphrase-flattening of the Cheshire Cat exchange in ch. 6 — Alice asks which way she ought to go; the Cat answers, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” and when she says she doesn’t much care, “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” Carroll’s version is logic; the meme version is a motivational poster.

“Have I gone mad?” / “I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret: all the best people are.”

Not in the book — this is dialogue from the 2010 Tim Burton film, endlessly reattributed to Carroll. The book’s madness line is the Cheshire Cat’s “We’re all mad here.”

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

Not in Carroll’s books — an internet attribution with no textual source. Widely quoted, never cited to a chapter, because there is none.