Famous Lewis Carroll Quotations

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"'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end then stop.'"
by Lewis Carroll
"'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'"
by Lewis Carroll
"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"
by Lewis Carroll
"Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."
by Lewis Carroll
"Do cats eat bats? - Do bats eat cats?"
by Lewis Carroll
"Everything has got a moral if you can only find it."
by Lewis Carroll
"For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?"
by Lewis Carroll
"He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes."
by Lewis Carroll
"His intimate friends called him `Candle-ends', / And his enemies `Toasted-cheese'."
by Lewis Carroll
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
by Lewis Carroll
"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."
by Lewis Carroll
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward."
by Lewis Carroll
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round"
by Lewis Carroll
"Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?"
by Lewis Carroll
"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
by Lewis Carroll
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
by Lewis Carroll
"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
by Lewis Carroll
"Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!"
by Lewis Carroll
"The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"
by Lewis Carroll
"Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky"
by Lewis Carroll
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us."
by Lewis Carroll
"What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"
by Lewis Carroll
"You are old, said the youth, and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? In my youth, said his father, I took to the law, And argued e"
by Lewis Carroll
"One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. 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."
by Lewis Carroll
"The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said"
by Lewis Carroll
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast."
by Lewis Carroll
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book thought Alice, without pictures or conversations ?"
by Lewis Carroll
"I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache."
by 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."
by Lewis Carroll
"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."
by Lewis Carroll
"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."
by Lewis Carroll
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
by Lewis Carroll
"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. Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat."
by Lewis Carroll
"If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
by Lewis Carroll
"Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence."
by Lewis Carroll
"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
by Lewis Carroll
"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."
by Lewis Carroll
"It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said. And how fast it comes! Why I do believe it's got wings!"
by Lewis Carroll
"When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
by Lewis Carroll
"'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one wit..."
by Lewis Carroll
"'Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almos..."
by Lewis Carroll
"'If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the booklets—the little thrilling roman..."
by Lewis Carroll
"'I couldn't afford to learn it,' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. 'I only took the regular course.' 'What was that?' inquired Alice."
by Lewis Carroll
"'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Tur..."
by Lewis Carroll
"'Who are you,' said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I—I hardly k..."
by Lewis Carroll
"'Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched height to be.' 'It i..."
by Lewis Carroll
"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?"
by Lewis Carroll
"And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!"
by Lewis Carroll
"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 l..."
by Lewis Carroll
"It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wi..."
by Lewis Carroll
"My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important point, you k..."
by Lewis Carroll
"There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar—if o..."
by Lewis Carroll
"Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is go..."
by Lewis Carroll


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