Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.”

— Lewis Carroll

102. “That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short – not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.”

— Lewis Carroll

103. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can’t said the Queen It’s jame every other day. Today isn’t any other day, you know.”

— Lewis Carroll

104. “The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!”

— Lewis Carroll

105. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

114. “Curiouser and curiouser.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

118. “Down the Rabbit-Hole.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

126. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

136. “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

137. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

143. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

146. “The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

150. “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