Lewis carroll quotes

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.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

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

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

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

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

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

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

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

'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.'

Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

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?

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

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

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!

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

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

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

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

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

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?

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.

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

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

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 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.

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

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

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

You can't be that good; you work for me.

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.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

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

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

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

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 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.'

In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

One can't believe impossible things.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

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

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

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

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

burning with curiosity

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

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

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.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

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.

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.

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

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

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.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

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

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

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

When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

Life, what is it but a dream?

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

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

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

Curiouser and curiouser.

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

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!

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

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.

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

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

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.

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

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

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

Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

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

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

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

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

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

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

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

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

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

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

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.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

All that matters is what we do for each other.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

What I tell you three times is true.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

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

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

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

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