Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!”

— Lewis Carroll

253. “When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

256. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

258. “Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.”

— Lewis Carroll

259. “A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing – A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing – Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say ’forget.”

— Lewis Carroll

260. “If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

262. “So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.”

— Lewis Carroll

263. “Who sail on stormy seas; And that’s the way I get my bread – A trifle, if you please.”

— Lewis Carroll

264. “She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.”

— Lewis Carroll

265. “If I wasn’t real,′ Alice said – half-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous – ‘I shouldn’t be able to cry.’ ‘I hope you don’t suppose those are real tears?’ Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.”

— Lewis Carroll

266. “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

267. “Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

269. “If I had but the time and you had but the brain.”

— Lewis Carroll

270. “I can explain all the poems that were ever invented – and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.”

— Lewis Carroll

271. “You won’t make yourself a bit realer by crying.”

— Lewis Carroll

272. “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

— Lewis Carroll

273. “The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.”

— Lewis Carroll

274. “So young a child ought to know which way she’s going, even if she doesn’t know her own name!”

— Lewis Carroll

275. “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

276. “Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast – And half believe it true.”

— Lewis Carroll

277. “Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

279. “Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.”

— Lewis Carroll

280. “With a sort of mental squint.”

— Lewis Carroll

281. “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?”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

283. “I have often seen a cat without a grin – but a grin without a cat – remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.”

— Lewis Carroll

284. “This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.”

— Lewis Carroll

285. “I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!”

— Lewis Carroll

286. “There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!”

— Lewis Carroll

287. “Well, then,′ the Cat went on, ’you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.”

— Lewis Carroll

288. “Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come to-day. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

— Lewis Carroll

289. “It began with the tea,′ the Hatter replied.”

— Lewis Carroll

290. “And is not that a Mother’s gentle hand that undraws your curtains, and a Mother’s sweet voice that summons you to rise? To rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that frightened you so when all was dark.”

— Lewis Carroll

291. “By which I get my wealth – And very gladly will I drink Your Honour’s noble health.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

293. “We haven’t any and you’re too young.”

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294. “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

295. “I have had prayers answered – most strangely so sometimes – but I think our Heavenly Father’s loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”

— Lewis Carroll

296. “I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.”

— Lewis Carroll

297. “The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.”

— Lewis Carroll

298. “I don’t want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.”

— Lewis Carroll

299. “The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.”

— Lewis Carroll

300. “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?′ and sometimes, ‘Do bats eat cats?’ for, you see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it. She felt that she.”

— Lewis Carroll