John Tenniel Quotes

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.