The phrase “curiouser and curiouser” is spoken by Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Who said it?

  • The line comes from the character Alice, the young girl who falls down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.
  • In the book, she exclaims “Curiouser and curiouser!” as the world around her becomes increasingly strange.

Where it appears

  • The phrase is in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , specifically in the chapter “The Pool of Tears.”
  • Modern dictionaries and phrase guides list it as a quotation originating from this work and use it to mean “increasingly strange” or “more and more curious.”

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