Lewis Carroll Quotes
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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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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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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.
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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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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
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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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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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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!