Top 450 Lewis Carroll Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.”

— Lewis Carroll

402. “At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.”

— Lewis Carroll

403. “Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan To me as quickly as you can.” “And wherefore should I lend it you?” “The reason, Cook, is plain to view. I wish to make an Irish stew.” “What meat is in that stew to go?” “My sister’ll be the contents!” “Oh!” “You’ll lend the pan to me, Cook?” “No!” Moral: Never stew your sister.”

— Lewis Carroll

404. “You may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.”

— Lewis Carroll

405. “Why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’” “Don’t you mean ‘purpose’?” said Alice. “I mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.” “I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

406. “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can’t take more.” “You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”

— Lewis Carroll

407. “You look a little shy; let me introduce you to that leg of mutton,′ said the Red Queen. ‘Alice – Mutton; Mutton – Alice.’ The leg of mutton got up in the dish and made a little bow to Alice; and Alice returned the bow, not knowing whether to be frightened or amused.”

— Lewis Carroll

408. “ORANGE MARMALADE’, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so.”

— Lewis Carroll

409. “That was a narrow escape!” said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence.”

— Lewis Carroll

410. “And ever since that,” the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, “He wo’n’t do a thing I ask! It’s always six o’clock now.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

412. “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

413. “I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.” “What was that?” inquired Alice. “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

415. “Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

— Lewis Carroll

416. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

— Lewis Carroll

417. “Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.”

— Lewis Carroll

418. “And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.” “I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

419. “White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he.”

— Lewis Carroll

420. “Look on the branch above your head,′ said the Gnat, ’and there you’ll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.”

— Lewis Carroll

421. “I ca’n’t remember things before they happen.’ ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.”

— Lewis Carroll

422. “So she brushed away her tears, and went on, as cheerfully as she could.”

— Lewis Carroll

423. “Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. ‘I don’t quite understand you,’ she said, as politely as she could.”

— Lewis Carroll

424. “All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, “You’re travelling the wrong way,” and shut up the window and went away.”

— Lewis Carroll

425. “Again, the first “o” in “borogoves” is pronounced like the “o” in “borrow.” I have heard people try to give it the sound of the “o” in “worry”. Such is Human Perversity.”

— Lewis Carroll

426. “I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll.”

— Lewis Carroll

427. “If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?”

— Lewis Carroll

428. “So I wasn’t dreaming, after all,” she said to herself, “unless – unless we’re all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it’s my dream, and not the Red King’s! I don’t like belonging to another person’s dream,” she went on in a rather complaining tone: “I’ve a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!”

— Lewis Carroll

429. “Don’t interrupt. I’m going to tell you all your flaws.”

— Lewis Carroll

430. “First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she.”

— Lewis Carroll

431. “He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

432. “She can’t do Subtraction,′ said the White Queen. ‘Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that?”

— Lewis Carroll

433. “I kept his letters in a sandalwood box and covered them every day with the flowers I gathered in the garden.”

— Lewis Carroll

434. “At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, ‘Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!’ They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.”

— Lewis Carroll

435. “My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”

— Lewis Carroll

436. “Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.”

— Lewis Carroll

437. “Hold your tongue, Ma!′ said the young crab, a little snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!”

— Lewis Carroll

438. “It isn’t respectable to beg.”

— Lewis Carroll

439. “When you’re older,” said the Professor, “you’ll know that you can’t put Mountains together again so easily!”

— Lewis Carroll

440. “Somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate.”

— Lewis Carroll

441. “I am real!” said Alice, and began to cry.”

— Lewis Carroll

442. “The character of a ‘lunatic’ is not, I believe, very difficult to acquire: but it is amazingly difficult to get rid of.”

— Lewis Carroll

443. “What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

— Lewis Carroll

444. “Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

446. “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!”

— Lewis Carroll

447. “How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.”

— Lewis Carroll

448. “This style of literature was called Nonsense and Carroll was universally acknowledged to be its undisputed master.”

— Lewis Carroll

449. “Why, there they are!′ said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table. ‘Nothing can be clearer than that. Then again – ” before she had this fit – ” you never had fits, my dear, I think?’ he said to the Queen.”

— Lewis Carroll

450. “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