Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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!
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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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Curiouser and curiouser.
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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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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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every 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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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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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
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The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe at all events when viva voce worse than useless.
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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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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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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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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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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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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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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?