Quotes from Lewis Carroll

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

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

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

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

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

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

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

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.

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

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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.

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

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.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

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.

Life, what is it but a dream?

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.