Lewis Carroll Quotes
Books by Lewis Carroll
Best 31 Quotes by Lewis Carroll – Page 1 of 2
“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
“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.”
“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
“He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.”
“I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
the slow result of life's decay,
To be once more a little child
for one bright summer day.”
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”
Alice in Wonderland Quotes
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Quotes
“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don't much care where.
The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
Alice: So long as I get somewhere.
The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”
“Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are going.
Alice: I don’t know.
Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
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“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”
“I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir. Because I'm not myself you see.”
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“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.”
“If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
“It's always tea time.”
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
“Off with their heads!”
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
“We're all mad here.”
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
“Why it's simply impassible!
– Why, don't you mean impossible?
No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
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“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
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