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Lewis Carroll Quotes

Total quotes: 39
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Tagged: Change, positive, Time, New Identities, Growth
“Everyone always says you have to be strong and have a stiff upper lip, but it’s okay to be fragile.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass
Tagged: Advices, Lies, Being Weak, fragile
“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 & Through the Looking-Glass
Tagged: Nature, Fields, Snow
“You would have to be half mad to dream me up.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
Tagged: Mad, Dream, insane, crazy, imaginative
“Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: respectable, Respect, People
“'And what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Books, Reading, picures
“'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Lessons, Puns, Jokes
“'Have I gone mad?'
'I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.’”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Madness, People
“Contrariwise, 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(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Confused, Logic, contrary
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Wisehouse Classics - Original 1865 Edition with the Complete Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel)
Tagged: Believe, impossible
“All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Tagged: First Lines In Books
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
Tagged: Insanity, Secrets, Success
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
Tagged: yesterday, Change, Life, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Advice, hypocrite, foolish
“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?”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Nonsense, Everything, confusing
“'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Thinking, Speaking, shut up
“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Bored, dull, Numb
“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: self, Identity, Reality
“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: confusing, Changes, Growth
“In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: careless, spontaneous, Escape
“Shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Aging, older, Girls, Women
“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Who Am I, Questions, Identity
“She sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Dreaming, Fantasy, Reality
“Sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Crying, Tears, scolding
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Wisehouse Classics- Original 1865 Edition with the Complete Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel)
Tagged: Myself
“How long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Time, Perception, Forever, Life, confusing
“The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: More, Less, Quantity
“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Mad, crazy, insane
“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Funny, humor, Laughter
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Memories, backwards, Memory
“I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: finish, begin, productive
“At any rate, there's no harm in trying.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Trying, Effort, alice
“Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?”
— Lewis Carroll, Carroll, Lewis, Sylvie and Bruno
Tagged: Life, Dreams, Dreaming
“'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(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Madness, People
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Wisehouse Classics- Original 1865 Edition with the Complete Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel)
Tagged: Fear, Love
“It's always tea time.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Wisehouse Classics- Original 1865 Edition with the Complete Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel)
Tagged: tea
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Tagged: Dreaming, Imagination
“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: savior, Hero, Souls, Universe
“'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,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where–’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Wisehouse Classics
Tagged: Moving On, Life, Direction, Life Direction
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