Lewis Carroll Quotes

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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Lewis Carroll

Crazy, Reality, Different

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

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.200, Springer

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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Lewis Carroll

People, Mind, Mouths

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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

Life, Change, Time

Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, People, Mad

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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

Lewis Carroll

Limits, Faults, Action

Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Lewis Carroll

Mind, World, Hardest

Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.375, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Children, Creativity, Ignorance

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

Lewis Carroll

Want, Matter, Path

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Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
"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

Crazy, Cat, People

Lewis Carroll (2001). “CliffsComplete Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, Cliffs Notes

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Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Yoga, Wells

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.404, Delphi Classics

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To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Lewis Carroll

Helping Others, Giving, Goal

Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

Lewis Carroll

Believe, Mad, Wonderland

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Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

Lewis Carroll

Cat, Want, Ends

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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

Lewis Carroll

Eye

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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

Lewis Carroll

Views, Next, Impossible

Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Relax, Wonderland

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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

Lewis Carroll

Small Acts, Courtesy, Packs

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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll

Long, Giving, Inspire

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.927, Race Point Pub

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

Lewis Carroll

Happiness, Sweet, Advice

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Lewis Carroll

Nice, Would Be, Wonderland

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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Lewis Carroll

Book, Mean, Use

Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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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

Morning, Thinking, Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Lewis Carroll

Laughing, Ifs

Lewis Carroll (1965). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.15, Dramatic Publishing

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Born: January 27, 1832
Died: January 14, 1898
Occupation: Writer
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