Lewis Carroll Quotes
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.
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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
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When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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We haven't any and you're too young.
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
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When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
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I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
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How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.
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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.
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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.