Lewis Carroll Quotes
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151. “How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!”

— Lewis Carroll

152. “Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,? the Mock Turtle replied, ’and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”

— Lewis Carroll

153. “It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

155. “Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.”

— Lewis Carroll

156. “It’s too late to correct it: when you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.”

— Lewis Carroll

157. “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!”

— Lewis Carroll

158. “The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked. ‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ’and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

— Lewis Carroll

159. “You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.”

— Lewis Carroll

160. “Well, when one’s lost, I suppose it’s good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.”

— Lewis Carroll

161. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”

— Lewis Carroll

162. “Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.”

— Lewis Carroll

163. “She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

— Lewis Carroll

164. “When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.”

— Lewis Carroll

165. “Birds of a feather flock together.”

— Lewis Carroll

166. “What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning – and a child’s more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn’t deny that, even if you tried with both hands.”

— Lewis Carroll

167. “It’s a large as life and twice as natural.”

— Lewis Carroll

168. “When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.”

— Lewis Carroll

169. “Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”

— Lewis Carroll

170. “A thick stick in one’s hand makes people respectful.”

— Lewis Carroll

171. “All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life’s sober sadness. Let’s be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!”

— Lewis Carroll

172. “Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.”

— Lewis Carroll

173. “PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”

— Lewis Carroll

174. “She’s stark raving mad!”

— Lewis Carroll

175. “In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts – it is unusual to offer both.”

— Lewis Carroll

176. “One can’t believe impossible things.”

— Lewis Carroll

177. “Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.”

— Lewis Carroll

178. “I don’t like belonging to another person’s dream.”

— Lewis Carroll

179. “If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, “without hard labour,” and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!”

— Lewis Carroll

180. “Unimportant, of course, I meant,′ the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, ‘important – unimportant – unimportant – important – ’ as if he were trying which word sounded best.”

— Lewis Carroll

181. “Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!”

— Lewis Carroll

182. “It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.”

— Lewis Carroll

183. “Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,′ thought Alice ’but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

185. “For instance, take the two words “fuming” and “furious.” Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards ” fuming,” you will say “fuming-furious;” if they turn, by even a hair’s breadth, towards “furious,” you will say “furious-fuming;” but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say “frumious.”

— Lewis Carroll

186. “Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.”

— Lewis Carroll

187. “Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!” And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.”

— Lewis Carroll

188. “I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”

— Lewis Carroll

189. “I think I could, if I only know how to begin.”

— Lewis Carroll

190. “One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.”

— Lewis Carroll

191. “Can a Thing exist without any Attributes belonging to it?”

— Lewis Carroll

192. “Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up; if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m someone else.”

— Lewis Carroll

193. “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

194. “Once upon a time there were three little sisters,′ the Dormouse began in a great hurry; ‘and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well – ’ ‘What did they live on?’ said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

196. “No puedo volver al pasado porque entonces era una persona diferente.”

— Lewis Carroll

197. “Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

198. “Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.”

— Lewis Carroll

199. “And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you’d be?”

— Lewis Carroll

200. “That’s the effect of living backwards,′ the Queen said kindly: ‘it always makes one a little giddy at first – ’ ‘Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in great astonishment. ‘I never heard of such a thing!’ ‘ – but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both ways.’ ‘I’m sure MINE only works one way,’ Alice remarked. ‘I can’t remember things before they happen.’ ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.”

— Lewis Carroll