Lewis Carroll Quotes
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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
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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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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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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
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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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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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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."