Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! – Lewis Carroll
If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does. – Lewis Carroll
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday –but never jam today. – Lewis Carroll
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. – Lewis Carroll
It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said. And how fast it comes! Why I do believe its got wings! – Lewis Carroll
Everythings got a moral, if only you can find it. – Lewis Carroll
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? – Lewis Carroll
The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings. – Lewis Carroll
Its a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. – Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, thats the great puzzle. – Lewis Carroll
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. – Lewis Carroll
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. – Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. – Lewis Carroll
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. – Lewis Carroll
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). – Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. – Lewis Carroll
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. – Lewis Carroll
I am fond of children — except boys. – Lewis Carroll