Lewis Carroll Quotes

“That'll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:learning age comfort

“'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:madness

“a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:madness

“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

topic:meaning language

“I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:meaning

“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, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:appearance others

“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:talking silence thinking

“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, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:imagination

“For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. ”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:imagination

“And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:imagination

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