Quotes by Lewis Carroll

About Lewis Carroll:

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
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Hey…you don’t look like a rabbit.

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I grimace, thinking someone should come up with a new phrase for 'I left the ocean without a kiwi-sized chunk of my lower-left butt cheek' to replace the rather nebulous term 'exploratory bite.

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Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty of time for the language to evolve into some sort of double-speak prison slang.

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How was I supposed to know ‘lucked out’ means ‘I got screwed over’ in Australian?

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So you went back to your friend’s next donkament two weeks later, and this time you just laughed right along when they gave you that framed picture of the poker hands. And when they called you ‘pigeon,’ ‘fish,’ and ‘muppet,’ you just sm...

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Alice, you might be the product of the biggest ball of ignorance, confidence, and good fortune the universe has ever manufactured. But if you’re thinking that you can take your results at the virtual tables and your grand tactic of Ignorance Is Bli...

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Alice? You didn’t get this far without realizing that you don’t have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.

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Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

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

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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

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Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don’t know. Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

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have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

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Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

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Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take ," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take than nothing." "Nobody asked op...

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It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up -- if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody ...

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It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"...

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Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hat...

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what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'" - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1

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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,

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Intendo dire”, disse Alice, “che uno non può fare a meno di crescere.” “Uno forse non può”, disse Humpty Dumpty, “ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

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Author Bio

  • NameLewis Carroll
  • DescriptionEnglish writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
  • AliasesCharles Lutwidge Dodgson; Charles Dodgson
  • BornJanuary 27, 1832
  • DiedJanuary 14, 1898
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMathematician; Logician; Photographer; Poet; Deacon; Children's Writer; Diarist; Novelist; Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksAlice's Adventures In Wonderland; Through The Looking-Glass; The Hunting Of The Snark; Jabberwocky