Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

253. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

255. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

262. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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

267. “Oh, don’t go on like that!′ cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. ‘Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come today. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

— Lewis Carroll

268. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

270. “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

271. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

273. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

280. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

282. “With a sort of mental squint.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

284. “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

285. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

287. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

289. “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

290. “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

291. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

293. “The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.”

— Lewis Carroll

294. “And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

296. “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

297. “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!′ sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter ‘Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose YOUR temper!’ ‘Hold your tongue, Ma!’ said the young Crab, a little snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!”

— Lewis Carroll

298. “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

299. “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail. “There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle – will you come and join the dance? Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll