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
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
– Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
– Lewis Carroll
But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green.
– Lewis Carroll
Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
– Lewis Carroll
Curiouser and curiouser!
– Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
– Lewis Carroll
He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too.
– Lewis Carroll
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
– 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
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
– Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
– 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
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
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
– Lewis Carroll
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
– Lewis Carroll
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
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
– Lewis Carroll
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
– Lewis Carroll
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
– 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
What I tell you three times is true.
– Lewis Carroll
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
– Lewis Carroll
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
– Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
– Lewis Carroll
With a sort of mental squint.
– Lewis Carroll
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
– Lewis Carroll
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
– Lewis Carroll
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
– Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
– Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
– Lewis Carroll
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
– Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
– Lewis Carroll
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
– Lewis Carroll
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'