Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “They’ve a temper, some of them – particularly verbs, they’re the proudest – adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...”

— Lewis Carroll

304. “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

305. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

307. “I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,′ said Alice, who was a very truthful child; ‘but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.’ ‘I don’t believe it,’ said the Pigeon; ’but if they do, why then they’re a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.”

— Lewis Carroll

308. “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

309. “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

310. “Seven years and six months! Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. ‘An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you’d asked my advice, I’d have said “Leave off at seven” – but it’s too late now.”

— Lewis Carroll

311. “Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood:.”

— Lewis Carroll

312. “An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. ‘Poor little thing!’ said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried.”

— Lewis Carroll

313. “I – I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

— Lewis Carroll

314. “Oh, what fun it’ll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can’t get at me!”

— Lewis Carroll

315. “What do you know about this business?′ the King said to Alice. ‘Nothing,’ said Alice. ‘Nothing WHATEVER?’ persisted the King. ‘Nothing whatever,’ said Alice.”

— Lewis Carroll

316. “It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she.”

— Lewis Carroll

317. “How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!”

— Lewis Carroll

318. “Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,’ said Alice desperately: ‘he’s perfectly idiotic!’ And.”

— Lewis Carroll

319. “There’s no use in comparing one’s feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.”

— Lewis Carroll

320. “Serpent, I say again!′ repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, ‘I’ve tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!’ ‘I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking.”

— Lewis Carroll

321. “You don’t know much,′ said the Duchess; ’and that’s a fact.”

— Lewis Carroll

322. “When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I’ll write one – but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone: “at least there’s no room to grow up any more here.”

— Lewis Carroll

323. “It’s really dreadful,’ she muttered to herself, ‘the way all the creatures argue. It’s enough to drive one crazy!’ The.”

— Lewis Carroll

324. “What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?”

— Lewis Carroll

325. “Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn’t be in Bill’s place for a good deal.”

— Lewis Carroll

326. “Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.”

— Lewis Carroll

327. “The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.”

— Lewis Carroll

328. “All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.”

— Lewis Carroll

329. “I want a clean cup,′ interrupted the Hatter: ’let’s all move one place on.”

— Lewis Carroll

330. “I meant by “impenetrability” that we’ve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you’d mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don’t mean to stop here all the rest of your life.′ ‘That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone. ‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I always pay it extra.”

— Lewis Carroll

331. “If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.”

— Lewis Carroll

332. “And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”

— Lewis Carroll

333. “Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again.”

— Lewis Carroll

334. “I’m getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don’t object, my dear, We’ll try a glass of bitter beer – I think it looks inviting.”

— Lewis Carroll

335. “There’s nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar – if only he might stand on his head to learn it!”

— Lewis Carroll

336. “He said he would come in,? the White Queen went on, ‘because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn’t such a thing in the house, that morning.’ Is there generally?? Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,? said the Queen.”

— Lewis Carroll

337. “I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!”

— Lewis Carroll

338. “Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!”

— Lewis Carroll

339. “Oh, you foolish.”

— Lewis Carroll

340. “If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don’t know what would happen to his head! I’m afraid it would come off!”

— Lewis Carroll

341. “As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood – a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”

— Lewis Carroll

342. “I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.”

— Lewis Carroll

343. “Well that’s it: if you don’t think, you shouldn’t talk!”

— Lewis Carroll

344. “Why is a raven like a writing-desk? – Mad Hatter.”

— Lewis Carroll

345. “Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It’s so interesting!”

— Lewis Carroll

346. “But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.”

— Lewis Carroll

347. “You shouldn’t make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.”

— Lewis Carroll

348. “He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.”

— Lewis Carroll

349. “Not like cats ” cried the Mouse in a shrill passionate voice. “Would you like cats if you were me.”

— Lewis Carroll

350. “Alice thought to herself, ‘I don’t see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn’t begin.’ But she waited patiently.”

— Lewis Carroll