Quotes from Lewis Carroll
But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!
- Lewis Carroll
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
- Lewis Carroll
Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!
- Lewis Carroll
Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. 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!
- Lewis Carroll
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!
- Lewis Carroll
but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
- Lewis Carroll
And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?
- Lewis Carroll
All that matters is what we do for each other.
- Lewis Carroll
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, 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 means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.
- Lewis Carroll
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said Talk, child. Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before! Well, now that we have seen each other, said the Unicorn, If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?
- Lewis Carroll
Take off your hat, the King said to the Hatter. It isn't mine, said the Hatter. Stolen! the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact. I keep them to sell, the Hatter added as an explanation; I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.
- Lewis Carroll
The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.
- Lewis Carroll