Best Lewis Carroll Quotes
Lewis Carroll Quotes About Love, In the End, Life, Time, Change, Imagination, Reading, Words & Success! In his youth, Lewis Carroll was an English author and game developer. Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, England. Carroll was a math prodigy in his youth, earning a slew of academic accolades along the way. He was given a scholarship at Christ College when he was 20 years old.
When it came to youngsters, Carroll had a unique affinity. One of Alice Liddell’s children urged him to write the tales he would relate to them on their travels. That’s precisely what he did, and Alice in Wonderland (1865) was shortly published by Lewis Carroll due to his efforts. In children’s literature, the book was a global best-seller and made him famous across the globe.
He also became well-known in the emerging art genre of photography. Often, his subjects were little children, whom he shot in a variety of settings and outfits. In 1881, he resigned from teaching and photography after a long career in which he had worked in various fields. Other of his well-known works is “Through the Looking-Glass” and “What Alice Found There” (1871), a sequel to the original Alice novel, as well as mathematical papers like “An Elementary Treatise on Determinants” (1867) and “Curiosa Mathematica” (1888).
On January 14, 1898, he passed away. Lewis Carroll quickly became one of English literature’s greatest writers, contending with Shakespeare and the Bible for literary supremacy. Wordplay, logic, and childlike imagination are what people remember him most.
Best Lewis Carroll Quotes
1. “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!” – Lewis Carroll
2. “There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.” – Lewis Carroll
3. “One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.” — Lewis Carroll
4. “But I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.” – Lewis Carroll
5. “When I used to read fairytales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!” – Lewis Carroll
6. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” – Lewis Carroll
7. “Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” — Lewis Carroll
8. “Sometimes I believe as many as size impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll
9. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll
10. “She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.” – Lewis Carroll
11. “Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves.” – Lewis Carroll
12. “Why is it that the people with the most narrow of minds seem ot have the widest of mouths?” — Lewis Carroll
13. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” — Lewis Carroll
14. “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!” — Lewis Carroll
15. “In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.” – Lewis Carroll
16. “Without a plan, it doesn’t matter which way you’re going.” – Lewis Carroll
17. “I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.” – Lewis Carroll
18. “Life, what is it but a dream?” – Lewis Carroll
19. “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.” – Lewis Carroll
20. “It is the privilege of true genius, and especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity” – Lewis Carroll
21. “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.” – Lewis Carroll
22. “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.” ~ Lewis Carroll
23. “If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.” – Lewis Carroll
24. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
25. “When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.” – Lewis Carroll
26. “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.” – Lewis Carroll
27. “Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes but the name of the secret is love!” — Lewis Carroll
28. “To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.” – Lewis Carroll
29. “All that matters is what we do for each other.” – Lewis Carroll
30. “If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.” – Lewis Carroll
