Lewis Carroll Quotes

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

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

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

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

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.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

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!

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

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.

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

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

'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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

"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."

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.

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

"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.

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

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

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?

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

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

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

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

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

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

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

What I tell you three times is true.

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.

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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