Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
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For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.
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Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
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If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.
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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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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 everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
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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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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
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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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Curiouser and curiouser.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
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It's always tea-time.