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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.

✵ 27. January 1832 – 14. January 1898
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Lewis Carroll Quotes

“‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more… muchier… you've lost your muchness.”

Lewis Carroll

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

“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.”

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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”

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“It's always tea-time.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: We're all mad here.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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!”

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“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--…”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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!”

Lewis Carroll

Source: The Best of Lewis Carroll

“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!”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“Do you suppose she's a wildflower?”

Lewis Carroll

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

“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.”

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“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.”

Lewis Carroll

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

“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!”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“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!”

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“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.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There