Cheshire Cat Quotes

If you’re looking for Cheshire cat quotes, you’re in the right place. This page brings you quotes from this beloved character. Some of the quotes come from movies based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Cheshire Cat Quotes

From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

"Cheshire-Puss," she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where---" said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

"---So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

"And how do you know that you're mad?"

"To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"

"I suppose so," Alice said.

"Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growl when it's angry, and wag its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I’m mad."

"I call it purring, not growling," said Alice.

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The following conversation precedes the Cat's death sentence. He's supposed to be beheaded.

"Who are you talking to?" said the King, coming up to Alice, and looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.

"It's a friend of mine – a Cheshire cat," said Alice: "allow me to introduce it."

"I don't like the look of it at all," said the King, "however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes."

"I rather not," the Cat remarked.

"Don't be impertinent," said the King, "and don't look at me like that!"

More Cheshire Cat Quotes

From Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951).

Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you'd really like to know, he went that way.

Alice: Who did?

Cheshire Cat: The White Rabbit.

Alice: He did?

Cheshire Cat: He did what?

Alice: Went that way.

Cheshire Cat: Who did?

Alice: The White Rabbit.

Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?

Alice: But didn't you just say - I mean - Oh, dear.

Cheshire Cat: Can you stand on your head?

Alice: Oh!

Cheshire Cat: You know? We could make her really angry! Shall we try?

Alice: Oh, no, no!

Cheshire Cat: Oh, but it's loads of fun!

Cheshire cat quotes from the NBC’s TV series Alice in Wonderland (1999).

Cheshire Cat: How're you enjoying the game?

Alice: They don't play very fair.

Cheshire Cat: No one does if they think they can get away with it. That's a lesson you'll have to learn.

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Cheshire Cat: I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!

Alice: Life must be hard for you.

Cheshire Cat: But I grin and bear it!

Cheshire cat quotes about the Cheshire Cat

"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat." ~ Sir Julian Huxley

"The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." ~ Jean Baudrillard

Did you find a special Cheshire cat quote? I find them all whimsical. And many are quite insightful.


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