Lewis Carroll Quotes

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

Lewis Carroll

• Silence
• Golden
• Hopelessly

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• Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Hopelessly