Lewis Carroll Quotes

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.' 'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,” said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.'.

It's as large as life, and twice as natural!

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

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

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

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

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.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

'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.'

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.".

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.

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.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

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