Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “When you’re older,” said the Professor, “you’ll know that you can’t put Mountains together again so easily!”

— Lewis Carroll

452. “Why, there they are!′ said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table. ‘Nothing can be clearer than that. Then again – ” before she had this fit – ” you never had fits, my dear, I think?’ he said to the Queen.”

— Lewis Carroll

453. “I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.”

— Lewis Carroll

454. “Look on the branch above your head,′ said the Gnat, ’and there you’ll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.”

— Lewis Carroll

455. “Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. 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

456. “La mejor forma de explicar una cosa es hacerla.”

— Lewis Carroll

457. “This style of literature was called Nonsense and Carroll was universally acknowledged to be its undisputed master.”

— Lewis Carroll

458. “The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.”

— Lewis Carroll

459. “Well, it’s got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!′ There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, ‘Sure, I don’t.”

— Lewis Carroll

460. “If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?”

— Lewis Carroll

461. “Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?“ – and she tried to curtsey.”

— Lewis Carroll

462. “She thought of herself, “I wish the creatures wouldn’t be so easily offended!”

— Lewis Carroll

463. “The character of a ‘lunatic’ is not, I believe, very difficult to acquire: but it is amazingly difficult to get rid of.”

— Lewis Carroll

464. “This young lady loves you with an H,” the King said, introducing Alice in the hope of turning off the Messenger’s attention from himself – but it was no use – the Anglo-Saxon attitudes only got more extraordinary every moment, while the great eyes rolled wildly from side to side.”

— Lewis Carroll

465. “I ca’n’t remember things as I used- and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!”

— Lewis Carroll

466. “People have asked the question “Can a Thing exist without any Attributes belonging to it?” It is a very puzzling question, and I’m not going to try to answer it: let us turn up our noses, and treat it with contemptuous silence, as if it really wasn’t worth noticing.”

— Lewis Carroll

467. “Somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate.”

— Lewis Carroll

468. “A schoolfellow of Vronsky’s and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.”

— Lewis Carroll

469. “Again, the first “o” in “borogoves” is pronounced like the “o” in “borrow.” I have heard people try to give it the sound of the “o” in “worry”. Such is Human Perversity.”

— Lewis Carroll

470. “The poet replied: “I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death.”

— Lewis Carroll

471. “It was much pleasanter at home,” thought poor Alice, “when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole – and yet – and yet – it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

— Lewis Carroll

472. “He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.”

— Lewis Carroll

473. “Yes, but then I came and rescued her!” the White Knight replied.”

— Lewis Carroll

474. “It is her solidity that is magical. The wonders are not wild or strange but odd and curious.”

— Lewis Carroll

475. “She can’t do Subtraction,′ said the White Queen. ‘Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that?”

— Lewis Carroll

476. “Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!”

— Lewis Carroll

477. “Don’t interrupt. I’m going to tell you all your flaws.”

— Lewis Carroll

478. “Only I don’t think,′ Alice went on, ’that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!”

— Lewis Carroll

479. “How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll