Lewis Carroll Quotes about Running

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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Math, Want

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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!

Lewis Carroll

Running, Wish, Wonderland

"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Book by Lewis Carroll, December 27, 1871.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Philosophical, Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (1976). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: Musical”, p.13, Dramatic Publishing

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Party, Meat

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.438, Race Point Pub

Now, here, you see, 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!

Lewis Carroll

Running, Somewhere Else, Wonderland

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 2 (1872)

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Home, Oysters

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872).