Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 4 of 10

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

— Lewis Carroll

152. “She’s stark raving mad!”

— Lewis Carroll

153. “Why,′ said the Dodo, ’the best way to explain it is to do it.”

— Lewis Carroll

154. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

157. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

159. “In Winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight. In Spring, when the woods are getting green, I’ll try and tell you what i mean. In Summer, when the days are long, perhaps you’ll understand the song. In Autumn, when the leaves are brown, take pen and ink, and write it down.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

162. “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

163. “Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

Featured in: Firsts Quotes

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

— Lewis Carroll

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

181. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

184. “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

185. “Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

— Lewis Carroll

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

189. “No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

191. “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

192. “I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it.”

— Lewis Carroll

193. “With a sort of mental squint.”

— Lewis Carroll

194. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

197. “I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole – and yet – and yet – it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

199. “I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll