Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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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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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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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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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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What I tell you three times is true.
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Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
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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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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 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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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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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!
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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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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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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
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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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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.