Quotes from Lewis Carroll

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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

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

What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.

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?

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

What I tell you three times is true.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

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!

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

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

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

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.

'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths out grabe.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.