The quotations of

Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar

1832–1898

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

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
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
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIIn context
- Comedy
- Success
“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
Off with her head!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Anger
- Comedy
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IVIn context
- Comedy
- Thinking
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday⁠—but never jam to-day.
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Comedy
- Time
“You are old, Father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head⁠—
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
You Are Old, Father William (1865)In context
- Age
- Comedy
After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy

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