This somewhat annoying Alice in Wonderland quote comes from the Red Queen herself.
Alice meets the Red Queen after talking to the flowers in the Queen’s garden. They go for a walk and the Queen of Hearts explains to Alice how the area is a giant chess game and how they move from a square to another. She even promises Alice that in the eighth square Alice will become a Queen herself!
While doing this they begin running and the Red Queen just makes them run faster and faster. But the strange thing is that the surroundings don’t change at all, and Alice feels that they are in the same place all the time, even though they run and run for a long time.
“Now here 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!”
-The Red Queen
The Queen doesn’t think anything of it but instead says that Alice’s country must be then a very slow sort of a country!
If you want to see more whimsical quotes from the Red Queen, or Queen of Hearts, click here >>> Top 5 Red Queen Quotes.