Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.
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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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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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Curiouser and curiouser.
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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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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
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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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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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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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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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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What I tell you three times is true.