Lewis Carroll Quotes

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“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.”

“Little Alice fell
d
o
w
n
the hOle,
bumped her head
and bruised her soul”

“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam.”
“Itcome sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it ca’n’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam everyday: to-day isn’t anyday, you know”

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

“It's always tea-time.”

“We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad”

“If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”

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

“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves”

“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!”

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

“Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.”

“That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.”

“It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--…”

“But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?”

“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!”

“I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!”

“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to…”

“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”

“We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.”

“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”

“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”

“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.”

“People who don't think shouldn't talk.”

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

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

“What a strange world we live in… Said Alice to the Queen of hearts”

“The time has come
The walrus said
To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships-
And sealing wax-
Of cabbages and kings-
And why the sae is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.”

“Do you suppose she's a wildflower?”

“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

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

“Sentence first; verdict afterwards." -Queen of Hearts”

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

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

“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.”

“Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!”

“Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!”

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

“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.”

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”

“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”

“Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

“up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky…”

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