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Quotes from Lewis Carroll

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.
~ Lewis Carroll
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!
~ Lewis Carroll
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.
~ Lewis Carroll
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
~ Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
~ Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
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.
~ Lewis Carroll
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?
~ Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
~ Lewis Carroll
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.
~ Lewis Carroll
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
~ Lewis Carroll
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
~ Lewis Carroll
Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter
~ Lewis Carroll
have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
~ Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
~ Lewis Carroll
Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!
~ Lewis Carroll
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!
~ Lewis Carroll
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,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where -' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.
~ Lewis Carroll
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
~ Lewis Carroll
We're all mad here.
~ Lewis Carroll
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
~ Lewis Carroll
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
~ Lewis Carroll
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
~ Lewis Carroll