Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory’s mystic band, Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers Pluck’d in a far off land.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

104. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

111. “Curiouser and curiouser.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

116. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

120. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

124. “But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who’s stopping us from inventing one?”

— Lewis Carroll

125. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

127. “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

128. “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

129. “Birds of a feather flock together.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

131. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

139. “Down the Rabbit-Hole.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

141. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

145. “The time has come The walrus said To talk of many things: Of shoes- and ships- And sealing wax- Of cabbages and kings- And why the sae is boiling hot- And whether pigs have wings.”

— Lewis Carroll

146. “If you knew Time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ’you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

148. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll