Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 14

Quotes about:

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

Inspirational, Queens, Believe

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

12 Copy quote
You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Lewis Carroll

Cutting, Battle, Serious

"Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 4: Tweedledum And Tweedledee, 1871.

4 Copy quote
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

Lewis Carroll

Writing, Ravens, Ideas

7 Copy quote
"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Lewis Carroll

Dream, Real, Thinking

"Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, ch. 4, 1871.

4 Copy quote
Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

Lewis Carroll

Horse, Fall, Sides

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

4 Copy quote
Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

Lewis Carroll

Destiny, Should Have, Be Who You Are

5 Copy quote
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

Lewis Carroll

Cat, Tree, Yards

Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com

4 Copy quote
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
And took them quite away!

Lewis Carroll

Summer, Queens, Heart

1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

64 Copy quote
The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

Lewis Carroll

Cat, Long, Teeth

Lewis Carroll (1920). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.89

4 Copy quote
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

Lewis Carroll

Boys, Joy, Arms

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872).

4 Copy quote
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know

Lewis Carroll

Queens, Yesterday, Jam

4 Copy quote
It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

Lewis Carroll

Thinking, Stories, Cry

Lewis Carroll (1893). “Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Fully Illustrated)”, p.136, LCI

7 Copy quote
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Lewis Carroll

Children, Thinking, Moral

Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com

6 Copy quote
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

Lewis Carroll

Giving, Gentleman, Rooms

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub

4 Copy quote
'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.

Lewis Carroll

Queens, Children, Thinking

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

5 Copy quote
A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

Lewis Carroll

Time, Trying, Might

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.113, eKitap Projesi

4 Copy quote
When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

Lewis Carroll

Sweet, Children, People

Lewis Carroll “Alice's Adventures”, Lulu.com

4 Copy quote
"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

Lewis Carroll

Time, Queens, Eye

Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing

4 Copy quote
What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll

Years, Long, Together

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

7 Copy quote
But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Lewis Carroll

Stopping, World, Said

4 Copy quote
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Lewis Carroll

Poetry, Good Man, Through The Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.197, e-artnow

7 Copy quote
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

Lewis Carroll

School, Fool, Poet

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

4 Copy quote
By which I get my wealth--
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour's noble health.

Lewis Carroll

Noble, Wealth, Drink

Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

4 Copy quote
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

Lewis Carroll

Children, Games, Two

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

13 Copy quote
I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

Lewis Carroll

Clock, Beats, Spokes

4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Charles Dickens

Hans Christian Andersen

Lewis Carroll

Follow

Born: January 27, 1832
Died: January 14, 1898
Occupation: Writer
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics