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• The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?
  he asked. "Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end...
• Please your Majesty," said the Knave, "I didn't write it, and they can't prove that I did
  here's no name signed at the end." "If you didn't sign it," said the King, "that only makes things worse....
• You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white
  And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right?...
• I only took the regular course." "What was that?" inquired Alice.
  "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied...
• Cheshire-Puss," she began, "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....
• That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.
  "It's the oldest rule in the book," said the King....
• You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as eve
  Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -- What made you so awfully clever?...
• Curiouser and curiouser! -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• You know you say things are 'much of a muchness' -- did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?
  "Really, now you ask me, " said Alice, very much confused, I don't think --" "Then you shouldn't talk," said the Hatter....