Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 4

Life, what is it but a dream?

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

What I tell you three times is true.

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

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.

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?

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

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

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.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.