"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 (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"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. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

""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)

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –"

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— The Mad Hatter"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

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

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

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

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

"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

"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)

"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.""
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass)

"Door: Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and 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)

"Mad hatter: how is a raven like a writing desk?
*squabble*
Alice: so how IS a raven like a writing desk?
Mad Hatter: I haven't the slightest idea."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others"
— Lewis Carroll

"He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too."
— Lewis Carroll

"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)

"'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)

"If you don't know where you want to go, then it does not matter where you go... "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"Just look down the road and tell me if you see either of them."
"I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
"I only wish I had such eyes to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."
— Lewis Carroll

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.""
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"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. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!"
— Lewis Carroll

"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)

"`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
— Lewis Carroll (Jabberwocky and Other Poems)

"We're all mad here dear Alice."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

""I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

""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)

"'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"'Where shall I begin, please your majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the king said gravely, 'and go on until you come to the end: then stop.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

"“I've had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can't take more.” “You mean you can't take less,” said the Hatter: “it's very easy to take more than nothing.”"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"‘In that direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives a Hatter: and in that direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’
‘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

"I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
the slow result of life's decay,
To be once more a little child
for one bright summer day."
— Lewis Carroll

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"Sentence first; verdict afterwards." -Queen of Hearts"
— Lewis Carroll

"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!"
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass)

"How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly he spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!"
— Lewis Carroll (The Best of Lewis Carroll)

"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's adventures in Wonderland: Through the looking glass)

"Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself."
— Lewis Carroll (The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass)

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things."
— Lewis Carroll

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."
— Lewis Carroll

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"'Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland: Including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass)