Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.”

— Lewis Carroll

352. “Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your walk!” “Coming in a minute, nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.” Only I don’t think,′ Alice went on, ‘that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!’ By this time.”

— Lewis Carroll

353. “Would you be a poet Before you’ve been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.”

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354. “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.”

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355. “Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!”

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

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357. “It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.”

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358. “Off with their heads!”

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359. “Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?”

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360. “She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, ‘Which way? Which way?’, holding her hand on top of her head to feel which way it was growing; and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

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362. “You couldn’t have it if you DID want it.”

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363. “I never thought of that before! It’s my opinion that you never think at all.”

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364. “I can’t believe THAT!′ said Alice. ‘Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’ Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one CAN’T believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

365. “Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting.”

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366. “I didn’t say there was nothing BETTER,′ the King replied. ‘I said there was nothing LIKE it.’ Which Alice did not venture to deny. ‘Who.”

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367. “Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I am not the same, the next question is “Who in the world am I?”

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368. “I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.”

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369. “I entered my room, and undrew the window-curtains, just in time to see the sun burst in glory from his ocean-prison, and clothe the world in the light of a new day.”

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370. “A Mad Tea-Party.”

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371. “In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts – it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts – it is unusual to offer both.”

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372. “No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.”

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373. “All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.”

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374. “After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples; they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit:.”

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375. “I wish creatures wouldn’t be so easily offended!“, “You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.”

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376. “You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,′ said the sheep: ’but you can’t look ALL round you – unless you’ve got eyes at the back of your head.”

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377. “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you’re at!”

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378. “So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. ‘If it had grown up,’ she said to herself, ’it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”

— Lewis Carroll

379. “Todo tiene una moraleja, si eres capaz de encontrarla.”

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380. “And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, ‘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.”

— Lewis Carroll

381. “Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature – at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes – is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.”

— Lewis Carroll

382. “Wonderland, though.”

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383. “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”

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384. “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least – at least I mean what I say – that’s the same thing, you know.”

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385. “I beg your pardon?′ Alice said with a puzzled air. ‘I’m not offended,’ said Humpty Dumpty.”

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386. “Por lo general, son caras ante las que pasamos sin darnos cuenta.”

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387. “Alice didn’t like being criticised, so she began asking questions. “Aren’t you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?” “There’s the tree in the middle,” said the Rose: “what else is it good for?” “But what could it do, if any danger came?” Alice asked. “It could bark,” said the Rose. “It says ‘Bough-wough!’ ” cried a Daisy, “that’s why its branches are called boughs!”

— Lewis Carroll

388. “And how do you know that you’re mad? “To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?” I suppose so, said Alice. “Well then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s 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

389. “Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, ‘If you please, sir – ’ The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept.”

— Lewis Carroll

390. “We CAN talk,′ said the Tiger-lily: ’when there’s anybody worth talking to.”

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391. “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.”

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392. “Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that?” “I suppose – ” Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. “Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?”

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393. “How fond she is of finding morals in things!’ Alice thought to herself.”

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394. “Duchess’s knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it – once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard’s slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the.”

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395. “So here’s a question for you. How old did you say you were?′ Alice made a short calculation, and said ‘Seven years and six months.’ ‘Wrong!’ Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. ‘You never said a word like it!’ ‘I though you meant “How old ARE you?“’ Alice explained. ‘If I’d meant that, I’d have said it,’ said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn’t want.”

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396. “In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight –.”

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397. “There will be nonsense in it!”

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398. “Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t think – – ” “Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.”

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

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400. “Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.”

— Lewis Carroll