Lewis Carroll

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

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 meant.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

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.