Lewis Carroll Quotes (141 Quotes)

You would have to be half mad to dream me up.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

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 someone else.

Consider anything, only don't cry!

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,

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

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

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

I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad

I must be shutting up like a telescope.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.