Quotes 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...
"If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the booklets—the little thrilling roman...
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.
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
"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...
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
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...
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...
And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said
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.
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
"Who are you," said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I—I hardly k...
Do cats eat bats? - Do bats eat cats?
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.
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?
The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings
His intimate friends called him `Candle-ends', / And his enemies `Toasted-cheese'.
If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?
'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.'
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!
