889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

It frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day

And how do you know that you're mad?

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. 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.

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.

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