Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
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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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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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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 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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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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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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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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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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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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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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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
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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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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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!