What does the Cheshire Cat say to Alice on directions?

Answer 1

`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.'

Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. `What sort of people live about here?'

`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Answer 2

In the book Alice's Adventures in wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire Cat for directions:

`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. `Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. `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.'

Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. `What sort of people live about here?'

`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'

Answer 3

In Chapter 6, Pig and Pepper, the Cheshire Cat disappears three times.

`Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?'

`I should like it very much,' said Alice, `but I haven't been invited yet.'

`You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.

`By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. `I'd nearly forgotten to ask.'

`It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back in a natural way.

`I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.

`Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.

`I said pig,' replied Alice; `and I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.'

`All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

It also disappears in Chapter 8, The Queen's Croquet-Ground, but it isn't clear whether is says anything before it does so. There has been a lengthy argument before it vanishes in which it does not partcipate. The last time it speaks before the argument is when Alice introduces it to the King of Hearts.

`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'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.

In the 1951 Disney movie the Cat is telling Alice that the inhabitants of Wonderland are mad, and just before disappearing he says, "You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself."Then, just before he vanishes completely, he sings the last line of the song he's been singing, "And the mome raths outgrabe."

Answer 4

In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat grins when it sees Alice. She greets the cat and asks it directions. The cat responds to her question.

The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good- natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.

`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. `Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. `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.

In the 1951 Disney movie, Alice is in the wood when she hears someone singing. She is looking for where the voice is coming from when the cat says, "Lose something?" She turns to see the cat's enormous grin. The rest of him appears and he carries on with his song. "Why, you're a cat," says Alice. "A Cheshire Cat," he replies, and lifts his ears and a tuft of fur on the top of his head, as though it were a hat.