Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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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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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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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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
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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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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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If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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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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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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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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What I tell you three times is true.
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The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
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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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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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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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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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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!