Lewis Carroll Quotes

It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

Lewis Carroll

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• I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Horse
  • White
  • Houses

• We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Unity

• Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
  • Live
  • Together

• Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Received
  • Houses

• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Sound
  • Cry

• The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Houses
  • Styles
  • Tunes

• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Beauty
  • Fail
  • Houses

• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Bodies
  • Harm
  • Houses

• Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Money
  • Evil
  • Cities

• Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams of wood. In short, the yet unfinished and unopened Railroad was in progress.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Progress
  • Buildings
  • Houses

• It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Life
  • I Love
  • Houses

• The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Judge
  • Houses
  • Agony

• Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Mankind
  • Build
  • Houses

• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Future
  • Lines
  • England

• I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Built

• Old women’s houses feel like the safest place on earth. A shrine to functional femininity.

  

  Nicole J. Georges
  • Women
  • Place
  • Houses

• Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

  

  Burt Prelutsky
  • Israel
  • Jews
  • Iran

• . . . Golden would find himself thinking that if he ever became delusional or foolhardy enough to outfit one of his houses with a complaint box, it would need to be about the size of a refrigerator.

  

  Brady Udall
  • Golden
  • Houses
  • Outfit

• I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Build
  • Houses
  • Decorating

• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Soul
  • Moon
  • Loneliness

• I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Point

• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Evil
  • Speak
  • Hear

• It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Houses
  • Jelly
  • Venison