"Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar."
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 6 of 19)
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"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One."
"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."
"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs."
"Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you."
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
"Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."
"There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am."
"If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you."
"What I tell you three times is true."
"So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!"
"O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one."
"One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration."
"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all."
""She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course.""
"When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint."
"I wonder if I've 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 I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!"
"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"
"Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction."
"The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters."