These Lewis Carroll Quotes will inspire you, spark your imagination and teach you to think like a child again.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who is famous for his pen name Lewis Carroll was born on 27 January 1832 was an English writer of children’s fiction. Lewis Carroll has quite the influence on literature and on people’s lives with his creative imagination.
Lewis Carroll needs no introduction as he is famous for his fiction work ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’. In no time, Carroll became one of the most loved authors of the English language. Carroll’s books have been translated into many different languages and also Lewis Carroll Quotes give a new perspective to life and living.
When he was younger, he was a very shy boy. He had a difficult time mingling with the children of his own age and was often bullied. As a result, when he grew up, he spent very less time with other people but prefer to stay in his imaginative world and enjoyed sharing his stories with children.
Carroll used to tell stories to Alice Liddell, who was the daughter of Carroll’s dean at Oxford. She is the one who inspired Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and, after it’s literary success Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. After that, Carroll’s stories have continued to fascinate children and adults for over a century.
Here we have piled up the collection of Lewis Carroll Quotes for you to spend some time in your imagination and to live your childhood again.
Lewis Carroll Quotes
“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Everything is funny if you can laugh at it.”
― Lewis Carroll
“When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.” – Lewis Carroll
“All that matters is what we do for each other.” – Lewis Carroll
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” – Lewis Carroll
“Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.” – Lewis Carroll
“If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
― lewis carroll
“If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“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
“He was part of my dream, of course — but then I was part of his dream, too.”
― Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Quotes
“How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled,
the slow result of life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
for one bright summer day.”
― Lewis Carroll
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“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.”
― Lewis Carroll
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things.”
― Lewis Carroll
“IN THE END… We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.”
― Lewis Carroll
“She who saves a single soul saves the universe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
― Lewis Carroll
“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”
― Lewis Carroll
White Rabbit Quotes Lewis Carroll
“I’m not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.”
― Lewis Carroll
“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”
― Lewis Carroll
“Well, when one’s lost, I suppose it’s good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.”
― Lewis Carroll
“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”
― Lewis Carroll
“I don’t see how he can ever finish if he doesn’t begin.”
― Lewis Carrol, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
“But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who’s stopping us from inventing one?”
― Lewis Caroll
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
― Lewis Carroll
“If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up; if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m someone else.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”
― Lewis Carroll
CS Lewis Alice In Wonderland Nonsense Quotes
“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
― Lewis Carroll
“when she thought it over afterward it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
― Lewis Carroll
“Go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll,
“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.”
― 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
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Life, what is it but a dream? ”
― Lewis Carroll
“Have I gone mad? I’m afraid so.
You’re entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“You’re thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll Phrases And Sayings
“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.”
― Lewis Carroll
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to…”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few thing indeed were really impossible.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Lewis Carroll
“We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.”
― Lewis Carroll
“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”
― Lewis Carroll
“People who don’t think shouldn’t talk.”
― Lewis Carroll
“If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!”
― Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll Famous Love Quotes
“The time has come
The walrus said
To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships-
And sealing wax-
Of cabbages and kings-
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll
“Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll
“We’re all mad here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
― Lewis Carroll
Did these Lewis Carroll quotes bring you to yours childhood?
In early childhood, Carroll acquired a stammer, which he referred to as his “hesitation” while stories say that he only stammered while talking to adults and was free and fluent with children. Still, the stammer has always been a significant part of the image of Carroll.
Lewis Carroll’s work has been one of history’s most successful literary content that ever existed. His work has also inspired other artists who are into child fiction and into storytelling. We hope these Lewis Carroll Quotes will inspire you and fill you with the joy of your childhood memories.
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