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The quotations of

Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar

1832–1898

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

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
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Time
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
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday⁠—but never jam to-day.
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Comedy
- Time
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Thinking
- Time
“No, no! The adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Time

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