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

Lewis Carroll

Variant: Alice thought to herself "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Life

“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”

Lewis Carroll

Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in Once Upon a Time (TV series) in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad Hatter appears. – Ref: Internet Movie Database (IMDb), quotes from Once upon a Time, "Hat Trick" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2104520/quotes.
Misattributed

World , Problem

“I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.”

Lewis Carroll

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

Cats

“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.”

Lewis Carroll
Love , Thinking

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.”

Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky

Source: Jabberwocky

Boy , Joy

“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.”

Lewis Carroll

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

Reality , Change

“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.”

Lewis Carroll
Learning

“I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.”

Lewis Carroll

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

“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.”

Lewis Carroll

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

“Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything
that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral
of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

Lewis Carroll
Sun , Sea , Night

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

Lewis Carroll

Source: Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.10, Springer

Animals

“when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural”

Lewis Carroll

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

Nature , Time

“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”

Lewis Carroll

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

Personality

“But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

Lewis Carroll

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

People , Personality

“Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”

Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice In Wonderland: Including Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so.
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

People , Secret , Madness