Lewis Carroll Quotes

Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail,'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail.See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!

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.I don't much care where –Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?' 'In my youth,' Father Willi...

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

You know, he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off. pg. 199

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured...

You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people.

Daresay you haven't had much practice,' said

Either the locks were too large, or the key was too small,

In Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the...

Is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether th...

Meaning in it, said the King, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict.

Number of changes she had gone through that day. '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 with such a n...

Said the Knave, I didn't write it and they can't prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end.

لا يمكنني العودة للأمس لأنني كنت حينها شخص آخر..

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,Lingering onward dreamilyIn an evening of July —Children three that nestle near,Eager eye and willing ear,Pleased a simple tale to hear —Long has paled that sunny sky:Echoes...

A tale begun in other days,When summer suns were glowing -A simple chime, that served to timeThe rhythm of your rowing -Whose echoes live in memory yet,Though envious years would say 'forget.

Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. There

Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice hand been reduced at l...

Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This is the d...