Quotes by Lewis Carroll

"“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”"

"“I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.  “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone.“To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!”"

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

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

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

"“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never , never forget!”  “You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don't make a memorandum of it.”"

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

"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise."

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

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us."

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

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

"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."

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

"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."

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

"“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”"

"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day."

"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."

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

"'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?"

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

"“ There's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.”  “Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice.  “That would be all the better, wouldn't it?”"

"“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen.“Now, here , you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”"

"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."

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

"'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.'"

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."

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

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

"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"