Quotes by Lewis Carroll

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
--Lewis Carroll

The faster I go, the behinder I get.
--Lewis Carroll

She often gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
--Lewis Carroll

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.
--Lewis Carroll

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream too.
--Lewis Carroll

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
--Lewis Carroll

What I tell you three times is true.
--Lewis Carroll

"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."
--Lewis Carroll

"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

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
--Lewis Carroll

The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
--Lewis Carroll

"Yes, let's consider," said Bruno, putting his thumb into his
mouth again, and sitting down upon a dead mouse.
"What do you keep that mouse for?" I said. "You should either
bury it or else throw it into the brook."
"Why, it's to measure with!" cried Bruno. "How ever would you
do a garden without one? We make each bed three mouses and a half
long, and two mouses wide."
I stopped him as he was dragging it off by the tail to show me
how it was used...
--Lewis Carroll

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
--Lewis Carroll

"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'"
--Lewis Carroll

"Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
"An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have
said 'Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean,"
she said, "that one can't help growing older."
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With
proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."
--Lewis Carroll

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

"It's very good jam," said the Queen.
--Lewis Carroll

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?" he asked.
"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on
till you come to the end: then stop."
--Lewis Carroll