Quotes from Lewis Carroll

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. 'Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!

They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!

When we were little, the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise - Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one? Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us, said the Mock Turtle angrily: really you are very dull!

How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!

We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to

If you think we're waxworks, he said, you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow! Contrariwise, added the one marked 'DEE', if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!, You'll get used to it in time, said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

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.

You've lost your muchness.

It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief." "I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered. "Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, '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 somebody else' -- but, oh, dear!

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

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.

The world is but a Thought, said he: The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion—unto me.

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.

And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!

You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.

The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however.

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, 'Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on top of her head to feel which way it was growing; and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but 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.