What was Lewis Carroll's famous quote?

Answer 1

Lewis Carroll is credited with a huge number of famous quotations. It is said (though not proved) that he is the most quoted person in the English language after Shakespeare.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has over one hundred entries by Lewis Carroll. Here are just some of them:

From The Hunting of the Snark

What I tell you three times is true.

He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed.

With his name painted clearly on each:

But, since he omitted to mention the fact,

They were all left behind on the beach.

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

'What is the use of a book.' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.

If everybody minded their own business,' said the Duchess in a hoarse a growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

From Through the Looking Glass

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

'I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!'

'He can't do that,' said the King, 'or else he'd have been here first.'