Quote

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.

Lewis Carroll

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
Deacon
Diarist
Logician
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Photographer
Poet
Writer
Daresbury
Cheshire
Charles Dodgson
Lewis Caroll
Lewis Carroll Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Rev. C. L. Dodgson
Charles L. Dodgson
Much
Math
Faster
Anywhere
Fast
Stay
Running

More quotes by Lewis Carroll

Image
What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
Lewis Carroll
Image
But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
Lewis Carroll
Image
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis Carroll
Image
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
Lewis Carroll
Image
And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
Lewis Carroll
Image
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
Lewis Carroll
Image
So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
Lewis Carroll
Image
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay 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. There goes the shawl again!
Lewis Carroll
Image
For the snark was a boojum, you see.
Lewis Carroll
Image
She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!
Lewis Carroll
Image
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
Lewis Carroll
Image
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no, or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
Lewis Carroll
Image
I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide
Lewis Carroll
Image
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll
Image
I don't think... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
Image
It's always tea-time.
Lewis Carroll