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• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!
  "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it....
• Now I'll give YOU something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day.
  I can't believe THAT!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone....
• The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'! Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?
  Alice said, trying to feel interested. No, you don't understand, the Knight said, looking a little vexed....
• The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!" "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?
  Alice said, trying to feel interested. "No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed....
• The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.
  "It MUST come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected....
• Now, here, you see, 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....