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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
Lewis Carroll
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
Lewis Carroll
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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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!
Lewis Carroll
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If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!
Lewis Carroll
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I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll
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I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Lewis Carroll
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All that matters is what we do for each other.
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
Lewis Carroll
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He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
Lewis Carroll
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
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Burning with curiosity.
Lewis Carroll
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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Lewis Carroll
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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
Lewis Carroll
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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!
Lewis Carroll
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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
Lewis Carroll
