Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 3

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

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.

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

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.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

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

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

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.

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

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

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

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Curiouser and curiouser.

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?