Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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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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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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And how do you know that you're mad?
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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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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!
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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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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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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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All that matters is what we do for each other.
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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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I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
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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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Why, what a temper you are in!
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Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.
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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
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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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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
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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.
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She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!