Lewis Carroll Quotes
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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We haven't any and you're too young.
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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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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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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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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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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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What I tell you three times is true.
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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
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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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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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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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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?