“No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
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Famous Lewis Carroll Quotes
Source: Alice in Wonderland Collection
“have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland-English Classics
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
“Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.”
“Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice”
“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?”
Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll
“'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'”
“Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
“That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.”
“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
“You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.”
Source: Alice's Adventures
“In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by”
Source: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
“Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess”
“Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”
“Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?”
Source: The Complete Lewis Carroll Collection (Illustrated)