Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 2

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?" "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

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.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

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.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

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 meant.

Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

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

Contrariwise, 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.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.