Top 380 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!”

— Lewis Carroll

202. “I pictured myself the Queen of Hearts as sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion – a blind and aimless Fury.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

204. “Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.”

— Lewis Carroll

205. “You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead – There were no birds to fly.”

— Lewis Carroll

206. “Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think –.”

— Lewis Carroll

207. “There are certain things – as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three – That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.”

— Lewis Carroll

208. “Well, “slithy” means “lithe and slimy.” “Lithe” is the same as “active.” You see it’s like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one word.”

— Lewis Carroll

209. “And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, “The rest next time – ” “It is next time!” The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland.”

— Lewis Carroll

210. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

212. “One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it – it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.”

— Lewis Carroll

213. “But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That’ll be a comfort, one way – never to be an old woman – but then – always to have lessons to learn!”

— Lewis Carroll

214. “Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?”

— Lewis Carroll

215. “Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!”

— Lewis Carroll

216. “I am fond of children – except boys.”

— Lewis Carroll

217. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

— Lewis Carroll

218. “You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!”

— Lewis Carroll

219. “I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious – it would never do.”

— Lewis Carroll

220. “You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”

— Lewis Carroll

221. “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”

— Lewis Carroll

222. “Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.”

— Lewis Carroll

223. “Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!”

— Lewis Carroll

224. “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head – Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, “I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.”

— Lewis Carroll

225. “It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; Alice heard it muttering to itself, “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice.”

— Lewis Carroll

226. “How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head though the doorway; ‘and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, ’it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.”

— Lewis Carroll

227. “Tut, tut, child!’ said the Duchess. ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.’ And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice’s side as she spoke.”

— Lewis Carroll

228. “But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ’we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

— Lewis Carroll

229. “The question is,’ said Alice, ’whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

— Lewis Carroll

230. “What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?” So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply “They are merely conventional signs!”

— Lewis Carroll

231. “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

232. “I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is – oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!”

— Lewis Carroll

233. “I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.”

— Lewis Carroll

234. “I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.”

— Lewis Carroll

235. “No use, no use!′ said the King. ‘She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I’ll make a memorandum about her, if you like-she’s a dear good creature,’ he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book. ‘Do you spell “creature” with a double “e”?”

— Lewis Carroll

236. “The Red Queen shook her head. “You may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like,” she said, “but I’ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”

— Lewis Carroll

237. “But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.”

— Lewis Carroll

238. “I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?”

— Lewis Carroll

239. “The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

241. “Two days wrong!” sighed the Hatter. “I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. “It was the best butter,” the March Hare meekly replied.”

— Lewis Carroll

242. “If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”

— Lewis Carroll

243. “Mine is a long and a sad tale!′ said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. ‘It is a long tail, certainly,’ said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail; ’but why do you call it sad?”

— Lewis Carroll

244. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know.”

— Lewis Carroll

245. “Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!”

— Lewis Carroll

246. “No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” “Wouldn’t it, really?” said Alice, in a tone of great surprise. “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle. “Why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going on a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?”

— Lewis Carroll

247. “Cheshire Puss,′ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘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.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

250. “Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

— Lewis Carroll