889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

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!

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? / Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...

If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

You may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap