Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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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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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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Off with their heads!
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And how do you know that you're mad?
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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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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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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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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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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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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why, what a temper you are in!
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
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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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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!