Top 371 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Carroll - Page 2

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.

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

Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

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.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life ? that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' ? but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man ? and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

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.

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

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.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

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

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

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

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Life, what is it but a dream?

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

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

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

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

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 could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

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

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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!

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

What I tell you three times is true.

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

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

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

One can't believe impossible things.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

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

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

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.