Lewis Carroll Quotes

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

~ Lewis Carroll

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

~ Lewis Carroll

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

~ Lewis Carroll

have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

~ Lewis Carroll

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!

~ Lewis Carroll

Curiouser and curiouser.

~ Lewis Carroll

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

~ Lewis Carroll

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

~ Lewis Carroll

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!

~ Lewis Carroll

Now, here, you see, 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!

~ Lewis Carroll

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

~ Lewis Carroll

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

~ Lewis Carroll

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

~ Lewis Carroll

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

~ Lewis Carroll

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought—So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.

~ Lewis Carroll

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

~ Lewis Carroll

what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1

~ Lewis Carroll

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.'`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.'`Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!

~ Lewis Carroll

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos

~ Lewis Carroll

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

~ Lewis Carroll

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

~ Lewis Carroll

Where should I go? -Alice. That depends on where you want to end up. - The Cheshire Cat.

~ Lewis Carroll

Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

~ Lewis Carroll

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

~ Lewis Carroll

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

~ Lewis Carroll

When you come to any passage you don't understand, read it again: if you still don't understand it, read it again: if you fail, even after three readings, very likely your brain is getting a little tired. In that case, put the book away, and take to other occupations, and next day, when you come to it fresh, you will very likely find that it is quite easy.

~ Lewis Carroll

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

~ Lewis Carroll

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?

~ Lewis Carroll

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

~ Lewis Carroll

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

~ Lewis Carroll

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

~ Lewis Carroll

In vain we roared;in vain we triedTo rouse her into laughter:Her pensive glances wandered wideFrom orchestra to rafter -TIER UPON TIER! she said,and sighed;And silence followed after.

~ Lewis Carroll

Scarce was the verdict spoken,When that still calm was broken,A childish form hath burst into the throng;With tears and looks of sadness,That bring no news of gladness,But tell too surely something hath gone wrong!

~ Lewis Carroll

I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!

~ Lewis Carroll

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

~ Lewis Carroll

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

~ Lewis Carroll

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying Come up again, dear!I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then,if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down heretill I'm somebody else--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burstof tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tiredof being all alone here!

~ Lewis Carroll

Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

~ Lewis Carroll

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

~ Lewis Carroll

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

~ Lewis Carroll