Top 400 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Alice thought to herself, ‘I don’t see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn’t begin.’ But she waited patiently.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

355. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

357. “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

358. “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

359. “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?”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

361. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

362. “Off with their heads!”

— Lewis Carroll

363. “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?”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

365. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

367. “A Mad Tea-Party.”

— Lewis Carroll

368. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

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.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

371. “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:.”

— Lewis Carroll

372. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

373. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

374. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

375. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

377. “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

378. “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

379. “Wonderland, though.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

382. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

385. “I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum, “But it ain’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”

— Lewis Carroll

386. “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

387. “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

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

391. “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

392. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

393. “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.”

— Lewis Carroll

394. “I’m sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown.”

— Lewis Carroll

395. “The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.”

— Lewis Carroll

396. “Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”

— Lewis Carroll

397. “I’ll stay down here! It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying “Come up again, dear!” I shall only look up and say “Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else” – but, oh dear!’ cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, ‘I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

399. “It’s the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life!”

— Lewis Carroll

400. “Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.”

— Lewis Carroll