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Lewis Carroll Quotes: 32

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Alice in Wonderland
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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.
Alice in Wonderland
Begin at the beginning,"the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Alice in Wonderland
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Alice in Wonderland
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
Alice in Wonderland
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 contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Alice in Wonderland
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.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Curiouser and curiouser!
Alice in Wonderland
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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. There goes the shawl again!
Curiouser and curiouser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
Alice in Wonderland
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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." "Nobody asked your opinion,"said Alice.
Alice in Wonderland
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Where should I go?"-Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up."- The Cheshire Cat.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
And what is the use of a book,"thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!
Through the Looking Glass
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.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Then you should say what you mean,"the March Hare went on. "I do,"Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!"said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat"is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!
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!
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
Alice in Wonderland
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
And ever, as the story drainedThe wells of fancy dry,And faintly strove that weary oneTo put the subject by,"The rest next time--" "It is next time!"The Happy voice cry.Thus grew the tale of Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There