Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
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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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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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Curiouser and curiouser.
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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!
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I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.
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No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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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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She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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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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.