Lewis Carroll

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.

— Lewis Carroll

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.

— Lewis Carroll

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

— Lewis Carroll

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

— Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

— 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

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.

— Lewis Carroll

If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

— Lewis Carroll

Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

— Lewis Carroll

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

— Lewis Carroll

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

— 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

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

— Lewis Carroll

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

What I tell you three times is true.

— Lewis Carroll

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.

— Lewis Carroll

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if Ive been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if Im not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, thats the great puzzle!

— Lewis Carroll

The time has come, the Walrus said,To talk of many things:Of shoesand shipsand sealing-waxOf cabbagesand kingsAnd why the sea is boiling hotAnd whether pigs have wings.

— Lewis Carroll

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither 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 masterthats all.

— Lewis Carroll

No, no! said the Queen. Sentence firstverdict afterwards.

— Lewis Carroll

Theres the Kings Messenger. Hes in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesnt begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all. Suppose he never commits the crime? said Alice. That would be all the better, wouldnt it? the Queen said.

— Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

— Lewis Carroll

For the point of life is not knowledge, not pleasure, not even fame itself, but simply to become a better man

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you get un-birthday presents-- . . . And only one for birthday presents, you know.

— Lewis Carroll

Alice--Mutton: Mutton--Alice.

— Lewis Carroll

"I didn't know I was to have a party at all," said Alice; "but, if there is to be one, I think I ought to invite the guests."

— Lewis Carroll

'Tis an honour to see me, a favour to hear: 'Tis a privilege high to have dinner and tea Along with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me!

— Lewis Carroll