Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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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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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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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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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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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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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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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
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He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
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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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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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And how do you know that you're mad?
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Off with their heads!
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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!