Lewis Carroll Quotes

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

"Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it — it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Birds of a feather flock together

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

I can’t believe THAT!” said Alice.
Can’t you?” said the Queen in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said, “one can’t believe impossible things.”
I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!

No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.

If you knew Time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.