Lewis Carroll citations (245 citations)

Variante: 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

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

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Lewis Carroll

“Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat”

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Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

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

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Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

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Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

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Lewis Carroll

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

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

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Lewis Carroll

This is a paraphrase of statement in a thank you note from Carroll to a childhood friend, the actress Ellen Terry, published in Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1997), p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&lpg=PA126&vq=%22do%20for%20others%22&pg=PA126#v=snippet&q=%22do%20for%20others%22&f=fals by Nina Auerbach: "... and so you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?" <br class="br">Disputed

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”

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Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

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Lewis Carroll livre Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contexte: 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

“Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
"Or else it doesn't, you know.”

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Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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.”

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Lewis Carroll

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

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

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Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

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Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”

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Lewis Carroll

Variante: 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

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!”

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Lewis Carroll

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

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”

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Lewis Carroll

Source: Jabberwocky and Other Poems

“Curiouser and curiouser.”

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Lewis Carroll

Variante: Curiouser and curiouser!
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass