Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

— Lewis Carroll

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

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

— Lewis Carroll

Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don’t know. Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

— Lewis Carroll

Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'' That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.' I don't much care where—' said Alice.' Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.'—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.' Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.

— Lewis Carroll

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I have something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again." Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

— Lewis Carroll

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish goodbye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.""Goodbye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child." Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

— Lewis Carroll

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

— Lewis Carroll

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, '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

Curio user and curio user.

— Lewis Carroll