Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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And how do you know that you're mad?
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All that matters is what we do for each other.
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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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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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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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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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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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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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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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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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
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Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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Off with their heads!
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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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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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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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I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
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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!
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Why, what a temper you are in!