889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. '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. There goes the shawl again!

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

The horror of that moment,"" the King went on, ""I shall never, never forget!"" ""You will, though,"" the Queen said, ""if you don't make a memorandum of it

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.