Lewis Carroll Quotes

"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.

How old are you?” “Seventeen,” he answered promptly. “And how long have you been seventeen?” His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A while,” he admitted at last.

How long a time lies in one little word?

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I have to tell them something that is going on. "What time is it, Mitch?" "Uh, that guy is eating a hamburger." "Shi*, I had to be somewhere..."

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

Life [had] replaced logic.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!