Lewis Carroll Quotes

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

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.

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

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

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

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

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

One can't believe impossible things.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

We're all mad here.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

"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."

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

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

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

I am fond of children - except boys.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

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

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

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.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

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

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

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

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.