Lewis Carroll Quotes

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

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

I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, Let it be un...

I quite agree with you, said the Duchess; and the moral of that is—‘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 ap...

I should see the garden far better, said Alice to herself, if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it—at least, no it doesn't do that— (after going a few yards...

I think I could, if I only know how to begin.

I wish could manage to be glad! the Queen said. Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay,

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

I'm a poor man, your majesty, the Hatter began in a weak voice, and I hadn't but just begun my tea, not more than a week or so, and what with the bread and butter so thin - and the twinkling of the te...

I'm sure I'm not Ada for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine does'nt go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I'm not Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she's she and I'm I, and-oh dear,...

I've a right to think, said Alice sharply.

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter which road you take.

If, in picking a quarrel, each party declined to go more than three-eighths of the way, and if, in making friends, each was ready to go five-eighths of the way—why, there would be more reconciliations...

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

In vain we roared;in vain we triedTo rouse her into laughter:Her pensive glances wandered wideFrom orchestra to rafter -TIER UPON TIER! she said,and sighed;And silence followed after.

Intendo dire, disse Alice, che uno non può fare a meno di crescere.Uno forse non può, disse Humpty Dumpty, ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's RATHER hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow it...