"Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second.""
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
Lewis Carroll was an English writer and mathematician, best known for his imaginative works like 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' which explore themes of identity and reality.
- Born
- January 27, 1832
- Died
- January 14, 1898
- Quotes
- 367
- Rank
- #511
Quote collection
Lewis Carroll quotes (page 3 of 19)
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"'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to.""
"What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts"
"You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness."
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
"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 contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?"
"Life, what is it but a dream?"
"Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?"
"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!"
"All that matters is what we do for each other."
"One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another."
"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.’ ’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 master — that’s all."
"Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!"
"Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is."
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
"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."
"Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again"
"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."
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
"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." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go."