Lewis Carroll Quotes
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
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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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I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.
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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
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There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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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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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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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.
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
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I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.
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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
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I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?