Цитаты из книги «Алиса в Стране чудес / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Алиса в Зазеркалье / Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There»

a large rabbit hole under the hedge

change the subject of conversation

I must be shutting up like a telescope

Alices Adventures In Wonderland Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit Hole Alice was tired of[1] sitting near her sister on the bank of the river. She had nothing to do:[2] once or twice she looked into the book that her sister was reading. But the book had no pictures or conversations in it. “What is the use of a book,[3]” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?” She was thinking about making a daisy-chain[4] but the day was hot and she felt very sleepy and lazy. Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran past her. The Rabbit said to itself “Oh dear! Oh dear, I shall be late![5]”

‘That’s great when one word means a lot,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

‘They gave it to me,’ Humpty Dumpty went on, ‘for… an un-birthday present.’ ‘But what is an un-birthday present?’ ‘When somebody gives you a present and it isn’t your birthday, of course.’

‘Why do you sit here alone?’ asked Alice. She didn’t want to begin an argument. ‘Because there’s nobody with me!’ said Humpty Dumpty. ‘Did you think I didn’t know the answer to that? Ask another.’

“I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use[154] going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“But I don’t want to go to mad people,” Alice answered. “Oh,” said the Cat: “but we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” inquired Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t be here.[103] Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?”

However everything is strange today