Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

155. “I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum, “But it ain’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

159. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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161. “Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.”

— Lewis Carroll

162. “Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?”

— Lewis Carroll

163. “The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

166. “Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what.”

— Lewis Carroll

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

177. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

179. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

181. “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

182. “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?”

— Lewis Carroll

183. “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, “Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you. – Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.” Said the mouse to the cur, “Such a trial, dear Sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath.” “I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,” Said cunning old Fury: “I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.”

— Lewis Carroll

184. “In spring, when woods are getting green, I’ll try and tell you what I mean.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

186. “I’m very much afraid I didn’t mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I’m glad to accept as the meaning of the book.”

— Lewis Carroll

187. “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

188. “Oh, you can’t help that,′ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

192. “And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.”

— Lewis Carroll

193. “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

194. “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

195. “Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!”

— Lewis Carroll

196. “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

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197. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

200. “Every adventure requires a first step.”

— Lewis Carroll