The quotations of

Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar

1832–1898

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

“Exactly so,” said Alice.
“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
“I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least⁠—at least I mean what I say⁠—that’s the same thing, you know.”
“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIIn context
- Talking
Off with her head!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Anger
- Comedy
“Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
- Morality
‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
- Advice
- Writing
“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic⁠—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
- Comedy
- Education
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.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle⁠—will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Animals
- Dancing
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Change
- Time
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIIIn context
- Comedy
- Laws
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIIIn context
- Advice
“Sentence first⁠—verdict afterwards.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIIIn context
- Justice
“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!”
“You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
- Poetry
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas⁠—only I don’t exactly know what they are!
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Ideas
- Poetry
“O Tiger-lily,” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I wish you could talk!”
“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily: “when there’s anybody worth talking to.”
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Talking
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, 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!”
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIIn context
- Motivation & Goals

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