Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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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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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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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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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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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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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
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And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
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All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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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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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
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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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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
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A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.