Alice in Wonderland Quote by the Gryphon

This rather blunt quote by the Gryphon is one of my all time favorite Alice in Wonderland quotes!

Alice is having a conversation with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon by the beach. Alice has been mostly listening to the other two telling their stories and songs but then the Gryphon asks Alice to tell about her adventures as well.

When Alice begins her tale a little hesitantly the Mock Turtle wants her to explain it all. But the Gryphon is impatient and wants to hear only the exiting parts. This is what he says:

"The adventures first...explanations take such a dreadful time."

If you don't know what a "Gryphon" is true to a conventional view of a griffin it is part lion part eagle. It has the head, talons and wings of an eagle and the body and tail of a lion. Pretty cool, eh?

[Image credit: Gryphon illustration by Upi Olin]

Alice in Wonderland Quote by the Red Queen

This Alice in Wonderland quote comes from the Red Queen

Alice meets the Red Queen after talking to the flowers in the Queen's garden. They go for a walk and the Red Queen explains to Alice how the area is a giant chess game and how they move from a square to another. She even promises Alice that in the eight square Alice will become a Queen herself!

While doing this they begin running and the Red Queen just makes them run faster and faster. But the strange thing is that the surroundings don't change at all, and Alice feels that they are in the same place all the time, even though they run and run  for a long time.

 "Now here it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

- Red Queen 

The Queen doesn't think anything of it but instead says that Alice's country must be then a very slow sort of a country.

If you want to see more whimsical quotes from the Red Queen click here >>> Top 5 Red Queen Quotes.