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Lewis Carroll – 15 Quotes From The Rabbit Hole

By January 27, 2016January 10th, 2018Authors, Quotations

A mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer and of course a writer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born 184 years ago today.
Who is Charles Dodgson, you may know him better as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass; that’s right, Lewis Carroll.

To celebrate his birthday we’ve collected together 15 wonderfully weird quotes for you.

“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” 

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” 

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”



“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”


“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

“‎You’re not the same as you were before,” he said. You were much more… muchier… you’ve lost your muchness.”

“If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Mr Dodgson definitely had a turn of phrase that sticks with the reader didn’t he. So many of these quotes are ones that I remember from the first time that I read Alice and they still make me smile today. Happy Birthday Lewis Carroll and thank you for the madness of Alice.

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