Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories Quotes

“Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Come, we shall have some fun now!", thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles - I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"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 said that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!".
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!".
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that "I breath when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breath"!".
"It is the same thing with you," said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“Nunca te imagines que eres de otra manera distinta de como a los demás les pareces, que lo que fueras o pudieras haber sido no es más distinto de lo que tú habrías sido si a los demás les hubieras parecido distinta.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“Todo tiene una moraleja, si eres capaz de encontrarla.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know.”
― Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Wonderland tales, puzzles, verse, and letters

“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”
― Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Wonderland tales, puzzles, verse, and letters

“where is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,)”
― Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll - The complete works

“Tu intención debía ser mala; si no, lo habrías firmado, como cualquier persona honesta.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“Estás pensando en algo, querida, y eso hace que te olvides de hablar.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“Si cada uno se ocupase de lo suyo el mundo iría mucho más deprisa de lo que va.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called ‘un-inspired’ literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages — enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.”
― Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll - The complete works

“What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.”
― Lewis Carroll, Complete Works

“For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.”
― Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll : Complete work (Illustrated)

“If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps.”
― Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll : Complete work (Illustrated)

“Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan To me as quickly as you can.” “And wherefore should I lend it you?” “The reason, Cook, is plain to view. I wish to make an Irish stew.” “What meat is in that stew to go?” “My sister’ll be the contents!” “Oh!” “You’ll lend the pan to me, Cook?” “No!” Moral: Never stew your sister.”
― Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Wonderland tales, puzzles, verse, and letters

“Only I do hope it’s my dream, and not the Red King’s! I don’t like belonging to another person’s dream,”
― Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Wonderland tales, puzzles, verse, and letters

“I ca’n’t remember things before they happen.’ ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.”
― Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Wonderland tales, puzzles, verse, and letters