Lewis Carroll Quotes

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

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

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

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

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

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

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

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

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

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

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

Alice 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." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!

It's always tea-time.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

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

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

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!

Curiouser and curiouser.

'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently. 'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

'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.'

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

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.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

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

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

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

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

Life, what is it but a dream?

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

All that matters is what we do for each other.

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!