Quotes by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
British Writer, Mathematician
Alive from: 1832-1898
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -but never jam today.
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When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
Source: Alice in wonderland -
''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say 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.''
Source: Alice in wonderland -
''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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Curiouser and curiouser!
Source: Alice in wonderland -
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
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Everything's got a moral, if you can only find it.
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I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
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Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
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