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Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.
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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
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Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - 'Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!'
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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An island-farm - broad seas of corn Stirred by the wandering breath of morn - The happy spot where I was born.
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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
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I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. 'When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!'
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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Since I have possessed a 'Wonderland Stamp Case', Life has been bright and peaceful, and I have used no other. I believe the Queen's laundress uses no other.
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In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.
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Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!
Lewis Carroll
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I mark this day with a white stone.
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It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.
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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.
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'You have no mind to be unkind,' Said echo in her ear: 'No mind to bring a living thing To suffering or fear. For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind, my dear.'
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We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
Lewis Carroll
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I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.
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And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?
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My father was a Brownie, Sir; My mother was a Fairy. The notion had occurred to her, The children would be happier, If they were taught to vary. The notion soon became a craze; And, when it once began, she Brought us all out in different ways - One was a Pixy, two were Fays, Another was a Banshee.
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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
Lewis Carroll