889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I’ll write one – but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone: “at least there’s no room to grow up any more here.

Well that’s it: if you don’t think, you shouldn’t talk!

If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do.

Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again.

I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.

The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.

You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,′ said the sheep: ’but you can’t look ALL round you – unless you’ve got eyes at the back of your head.

Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come to-day. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!