889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!

I’m very much afraid I didn’t mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, 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 means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I’m glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.

I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.

The Red Queen shook her head. “You may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like,” she said, “but I’ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

Unimportant, of course, I meant,′ the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, ‘important – unimportant – unimportant – important – ’ as if he were trying which word sounded best.