Top 100 Lewis Carroll Quotes
#1. Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up
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#2. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
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#3. A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly. Of course you reply, "I do it to save time". A very good object, no doubt: but what right have you to do it at your friend's expense? Isn't his time as valuable as yours?
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#4. 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.
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#5. Am I mad?"
"I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers! But I'll tell you a secret ... all of the best people are!
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#6. I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)
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#7. 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!
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#8. It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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#9. So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
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#10. There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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#11. How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
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#12. Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!
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#13. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
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#14. Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread
A trifle, if you please.
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#15. If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
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#16. My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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#17. Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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#18. Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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#19. Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this.
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#20. Well that's it: if you don't think, you shouldn't talk!
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#21. But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way
never to be an old woman
but then
always to have lessons to learn!
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#22. An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried
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#23. Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can, And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran: Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea - And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!
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#24. If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
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#25. 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.
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#26. You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.
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#27. Am i insane" asked alice
"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father
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#28. The vast unfathomable sea
Is but a Notion-unto me.
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#29. Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
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#30. And her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah,
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#31. It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
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#32. Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
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#33. I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.
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#34. The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!
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#36. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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#37. Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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#38. And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming over with quivering curds!
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#39. Sentence first; verdict afterwards. -Queen of Hearts
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#40. Actually the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of a Adventures.
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#41. A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing -
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of your rowing -
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say 'forget.
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#42. "Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.
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#43. How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
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#44. Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?
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#45. What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
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#46. I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
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#47. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
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#48. 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?
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#49. Tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters.
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#50. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
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#51. There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar
if only he might stand on his head to learn it!
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#52. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.
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#53. Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very
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#55. In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean.
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#56. Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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#57. To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking
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#63. No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
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#64. All right, said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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#65. The Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET,
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#66. Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
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#67. earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"' 'Found what?' said the Duck. 'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course
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#68. I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.
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#69. There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!
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#70. If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
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#71. Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
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#72. Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
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#73. Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat
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#74. Flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is
Birds of a feather flock together.
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#75. I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.' Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156
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#76. One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.
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#77. She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!
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#78. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples; they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit:
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#79. poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
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#80. And though the shadow of a sigh
May tremble through the story,
For "happy summer days" gone by,
And vanish'd summer glory
It shall not touch with breath of bale,
The pleasance of our fairy-tale.
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#81. May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
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#82. I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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#83. It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
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#84. It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she
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#85. But I was thinking of a plan
To dye one's whiskers green,
And always use so large a fan
That they could not be seen.
from The White Knights Song
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#87. Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."
I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!
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#88. The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:
The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town.
Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown:
Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.
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#89. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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#90. How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself.
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#92. So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
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#93. Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
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#95. Were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the
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#96. It's done by everyone minding their own business
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#97. Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her,
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#98. You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,' said the sheep: 'but you can't look ALL round you - unless you've got eyes at the back of your head.
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#99. People that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as
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#100. I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more
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