Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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.
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
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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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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
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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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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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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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All that matters is what we do for each other.
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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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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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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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He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
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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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Why, what a temper you are in!
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Burning with curiosity.
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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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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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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!