Lewis Carroll Quotes
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101. “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. ‘ – so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation. ‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ’if you only walk long enough.”

— Lewis Carroll

102. “Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.”

— Lewis Carroll

103. “In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

105. “All that matters is what we do for each other.”

— Lewis Carroll

106. “You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

— Lewis Carroll

107. “A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!”

— Lewis Carroll

108. “Curiouser and curiouser.”

— Lewis Carroll

109. “My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.”

— Lewis Carroll

110. “My beloved friend – one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.”

— Lewis Carroll

111. “The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

— Lewis Carroll

112. “Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing – turn your toes out when you walk – And remember who you are!”

— Lewis Carroll

113. “Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again – Echo still the joyful sound “Peace on earth, good-will to men!””

— Lewis Carroll

114. “I’m doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?”

— Lewis Carroll

115. “A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed – Now if you’re ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!”

— Lewis Carroll

116. “His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”

— Lewis Carroll

117. “It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.”

— Lewis Carroll

118. “In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.”

— Lewis Carroll

119. “In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.”

— Lewis Carroll

120. “For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

— Lewis Carroll

121. “One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.”

— Lewis Carroll

122. “Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”

— Lewis Carroll

123. “You evidently do not suffer from “quotation-hunger” as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.”

— Lewis Carroll

124. “If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things.”

— Lewis Carroll

125. “What I tell you three times is true.”

— Lewis Carroll

126. “Do let’s pretend that I’m a hungry hyena, and you’re a bone!”

— Lewis Carroll

127. “Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.”

— Lewis Carroll

128. “I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

— Lewis Carroll

129. “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

130. “Without a plan, it doesn’t matter which way you’re going.”

— Lewis Carroll

131. “One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.”

— Lewis Carroll

132. “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”

— Lewis Carroll

133. “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

134. “I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.”

— Lewis Carroll

135. “Down the Rabbit-Hole.”

— Lewis Carroll

136. “I believe this thought, of the possibility of death – if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.”

— Lewis Carroll

137. “Yes, that’s it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it’s always tea time.”

— Lewis Carroll

138. “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

— Lewis Carroll

139. “And how do you know that you’re mad?”

— Lewis Carroll

140. “You know very well you’re not real.”

— Lewis Carroll

141. “If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

143. “For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.”

— Lewis Carroll

144. “Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it – the Dutchess.”

— Lewis Carroll

145. “Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?”

— Lewis Carroll

146. “Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that?”

— Lewis Carroll

147. “All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.”

— Lewis Carroll

148. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

149. “Take my friends and my home – as an outcast I’ll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.”

— Lewis Carroll

150. “Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”

— Lewis Carroll