Lewis Carroll Quotes

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.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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.

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.

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

We haven't any and you're too young.

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.

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

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

It's a large as life and twice as natural

Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!

I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

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!

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"!

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.

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

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

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

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

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?

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.

'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.'

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.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.

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

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

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.

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

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

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

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

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

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

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

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

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

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.

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.

"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.

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.