Quotes from Lewis Carroll

"I'll be judge, I'll be jury," said cunning old Fury;"I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."

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

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones and Meridian Lines?"So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply,"They are merely conventional signs!"

Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

"Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!"

All in the golden afternoonFull leisurely we glide,For both our oars with little skillBy little arms are pliedWhile little hands make vain pretenseOur wanderings to guide.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

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

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

I am fond of children — except boys.

How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale!How cheerfully he seems to grin,How neatly spreads his claws,And welcomes little fishes inWith gently smiling jaws!

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "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."

Do cats eat bats?… Do bats eat cats?

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

"I weep for you," the Walrus said:"I deeply sympathize."With sobs and tears he sorted outThose of the largest size,Holding his pocket-handkerchiefBefore his streaming eyes.

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."

The further off from England the nearer is to France—Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really you are very dull!"