Lewis Carroll Quotations

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

'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.'

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

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

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

'Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

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.

But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

I said it very loud and clear; / I went and shouted in his ear.

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!

O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"" the Mock Turtle replied, ""and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

It frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint

But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn!

But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green.

You are old,"" said the youth, ""and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? ""In my youth,"" said his father, ""I took to the law, And argued e

The other Messenger's called Hatta. I must have two, you know - to come and go. One to come, and one to go.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

Do cats eat bats? - Do bats eat cats?

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more.

Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot / Into a left-hand shoe.

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.

Speak roughly to your little boy, / And beat him when he sneezes: / He only does it to annoy, / Because he knows it teases.

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

''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.''

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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!

Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? / Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!

You may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap

They told me you had been to her, / And mentioned me to him: / She gave me a good character, / But said I could not swim.

They gave it me . . . for an un-birthday present.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.

It's as large as life, and twice as natural!

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

They lived at the bottom of a well - . . . They lived on treacle.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room

I know what you're thinking about, but it isn't so, nohow. Contrarywise, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be. But, as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

In the midst of the word he was trying to say / In the midst of his laughter and glee, / He had softly and suddenly vanished away - / For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad here. Im mad. Youre mad.''How do you know Im mad?' said Alice.'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldnt have come here.'

'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!

Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

If everybody minded their own business,"" the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ""the world would go round a deal faster than it does

''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''

You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.

The horror of that moment,"" the King went on, ""I shall never, never forget!"" ""You will, though,"" the Queen said, ""if you don't make a memorandum of it

The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!

The further off from England, the nearer is to France - / Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

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

I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

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

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.