quotes by Lewis Carroll

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

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

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
-Alice
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
-Cheshire Cat
"I don't much care where –"
-Alice
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
-Cheshire Cat
"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. "
— Lewis Carroll

"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"
— Lewis Carroll

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One CAN'T believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"
"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can'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.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Classics))

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

"
— Lewis Carroll

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
"
— Lewis Carroll

"Curiouser and curiouser."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here."
— Lewis Carroll

"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?"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

"...sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"
— Lewis Carroll

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outrage."
— Lewis Carroll

" ’ When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

"Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you walk---
And remember who you are!
"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

""...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."
"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things
Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax-
Of cabbages-and kings-
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.
"
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass)

"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

""it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," says the White Queen to Alice."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)