Lewis Carroll Quotes
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
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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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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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We haven't any and you're too young.
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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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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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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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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 drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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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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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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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
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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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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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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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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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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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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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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’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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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!