Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

53. “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,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where – ’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.”

— Lewis Carroll

54. “Do you suppose she’s a wildflower?”

— Lewis Carroll

55. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

57. “Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

— Lewis Carroll

58. “You would have to be half mad to dream me up.”

— Lewis Carroll

59. “It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.”

— Lewis Carroll

60. “That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.”

— Lewis Carroll

61. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

62. “Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven’t had any yet, so I can’t very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can’t very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

— Lewis Carroll

63. “I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”

— Lewis Carroll

64. “A very merry unbirthday to you.”

— Lewis Carroll

65. “I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.”

— Lewis Carroll

66. “We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.”

— Lewis Carroll

67. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

— Lewis Carroll

68. “I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.”

— Lewis Carroll

69. “I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.”

— Lewis Carroll

70. “Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul.”

— Lewis Carroll

71. “Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.”

— Lewis Carroll

72. “Birds of a feather flock together.”

— Lewis Carroll

73. “Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.”

— Lewis Carroll

74. “In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail – not the tail that wags the dog.”

— Lewis Carroll

75. “Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

77. “Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.”

— Lewis Carroll

78. “Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.”

— Lewis Carroll

79. “Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream?”

— Lewis Carroll

80. “Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?”

— Lewis Carroll

81. “Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”

— Lewis Carroll

82. “How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.”

— Lewis Carroll

83. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”

— Lewis Carroll

84. “And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.”

— Lewis Carroll

85. “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 appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

— Lewis Carroll

86. “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

— Lewis Carroll

87. “Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.”

— Lewis Carroll

88. “The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”

— Lewis Carroll

89. “Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.”

— Lewis Carroll

90. “Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?”

— Lewis Carroll

91. “A dream is not reality but who’s to say which is which?”

— Lewis Carroll

92. “The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright – And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.”

— Lewis Carroll

93. “The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.”

— Lewis Carroll

94. “Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you’re much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing’s impossible.”

— Lewis Carroll

95. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

96. “And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.”

— Lewis Carroll

97. “Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers all the time.”

— Lewis Carroll

98. “Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau – ootiful Soo – oop! Beau – ootiful Soo – oop! Soo – oop of the e – e – evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!”

— Lewis Carroll

99. “She’s in that state of mind that she wants to deny something -only she doesn’t know what to deny!”

— Lewis Carroll

100. “If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.”

— Lewis Carroll