The quotations of

Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar

1832–1898

48 quotes, most often on Comedy, Time and Talking.

I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that’s the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 4: A Cunning Conspiracy
- Children
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Roger Lancelyn Green (1989), p. 10
- Comedy
- Writing
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Preface
- Life & Death
Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream?
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
- Life & Death
- Time
‘Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet
- Love
“and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Reading
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Time
If you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Advice
- Comedy
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIn context
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIn context
- Animals
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIIn context
- Comedy
- Success
“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIn context
“Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIn context
- Children
- Comedy
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you ca’n’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.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIn context
- Comedy
“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIIn context
- Comedy

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