Lewis Carroll Quotes

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

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

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

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

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

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

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

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

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

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

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

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

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!

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

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.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

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

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

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

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

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

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

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

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

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

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

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.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

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

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

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

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!