Lewis Carroll Quotes
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I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.
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I NEVER loved a dear Gazelle – Nor anything that cost me much: High prices profit those who sell, but why should I be fond of such?
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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
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When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms Watts, of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!
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Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND, And so I tell you flat.
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Who's the Knight-Mayor?' I cried. Instead Of answering my question, 'Well, if you don't know THAT,' he said, 'Either you never go to bed, Or you've a grand digestion!
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It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
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I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know.
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
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Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.
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A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
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You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.
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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In its case it lay compactly, Folded into nearly nothing;But he opened out the hinges, Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges, Till it looked all squares and oblongs, Like a complicated figure In the Second Book of Euclid.
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To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.
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They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.