Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
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Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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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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All that matters is what we do for each other.
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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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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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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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Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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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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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 am fond of children - except boys.
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Off with their heads!
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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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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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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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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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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
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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.