Lewis Carroll Quotes

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. He is best known for his novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky". He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, fantasy, and nonsense. Read more on Wikipedia...

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"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

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I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Lewis Carroll

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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics.

— Lewis Carroll

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For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

— Lewis Carroll

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They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.

— Lewis Carroll

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But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!

— Lewis Carroll

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‘What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones and Meridian lines?’
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply,
‘They are merely conventional signs!’

— Lewis Carroll

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What I tell you three times is true.

— Lewis Carroll

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No admittance till the week after next!

— Lewis Carroll

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It's my own invention.

— Lewis Carroll

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It's as large as life, and twice as natural!

— Lewis Carroll

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He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

— Lewis Carroll

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You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.

— Lewis Carroll

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‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that's all.’

— Lewis Carroll

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‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’

— Lewis Carroll

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There's glory for you!

— Lewis Carroll

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They gave it me,—for an un-birthday present.

— Lewis Carroll

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With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

— Lewis Carroll

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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.

— Lewis Carroll

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