Lewis Carroll Quotes

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

With a sort of mental squint.

I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

Why, what a temper you are in!

She's stark raving mad!

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know.

But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.

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.

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

And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!

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

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

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!

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Off with their heads!

“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

, "I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat

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

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

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

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

Take some more tea, " the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet, " Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." than nothing." opinion, " said Alice.

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!

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

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

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

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

And what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?

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.

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

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

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

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.

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!