Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

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2. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

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3. “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

— Lewis Carroll

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4. “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

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5. “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

— Lewis Carroll

6. “Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.”

— Lewis Carroll

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7. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

— Lewis Carroll

8. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

9. “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do.”

— Lewis Carroll

10. “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

— Lewis Carroll

11. “Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”

— Lewis Carroll

12. “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!”

— Lewis Carroll

13. “If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn’t matter which path you take.”

— Lewis Carroll

14. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

— Lewis Carroll

15. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

17. “There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.”

— Lewis Carroll

18. “But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.”

— Lewis Carroll

19. “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”

— Lewis Carroll

20. “You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

22. “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?”

— Lewis Carroll

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23. “In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”

— Lewis Carroll

24. “Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...”

— Lewis Carroll

25. “If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.”

— Lewis Carroll

26. “People who don’t think shouldn’t talk.”

— Lewis Carroll

27. “Our lives may be no more than dewdrops on a summer morning. But surely, it is better that we sparkle while we are here.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

29. “It is better to be feared than loved.”

— Lewis Carroll

30. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

— Lewis Carroll

31. “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

— Lewis Carroll

32. “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.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.”

— Lewis Carroll

33. “We’re all mad here.”

— Lewis Carroll

34. “It’s always tea-time.”

— Lewis Carroll

35. “Life, what is it but a dream?”

— Lewis Carroll

36. “Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.”

— Lewis Carroll

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37. “Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter.”

— Lewis Carroll

38. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

39. “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!”

— Lewis Carroll

40. “She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”

— Lewis Carroll

41. “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.”

— Lewis Carroll

42. “I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”

— Lewis Carroll

43. “Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.”

— Lewis Carroll

44. “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”

— Lewis Carroll

45. “Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

— Lewis Carroll

46. “Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?”

— Lewis Carroll

47. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.”

— Lewis Carroll

48. “He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.”

— Lewis Carroll

49. “Why is a raven like a writing desk? – Mad Hatter I haven’t the slightest idea. – Alice.”

— Lewis Carroll

50. “For the snark was a boojum, you see.”

— Lewis Carroll