Lewis Carroll: Trending quotes (page 12)

Variant: I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Thinking , Change , Time

“I don't think… then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Thinking

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

World , Business

“I wonder if the snowthe 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.”

Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Kiss , Sleep , Tree , Summer

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

Lewis Carroll book Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Context: p>Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Bowed to the earth with bitter woe
Or laughing at some raree-show
We flutter idly to and fro.Man's little Day in haste we spend,
And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.</p

Life , Dreams , Time

“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.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Way , Dependency

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll

Truth , Thinking

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Cats , Tree

“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!”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

World , Feeling , Question , Thinking

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Motivational , Success , Deep , Inspirational

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Source: Alice in Wonderland