Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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've caught a cold,' the Thing replies, 'Out there upon the landing.' I turned to look in some surprise, And there, before my very eyes, A little Ghost was standing!
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If doubtful whether to end with 'yours faithfully', or 'yours truly', or 'your most truly', &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach 'yours affectionately'), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!
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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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Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.
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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
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I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.
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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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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
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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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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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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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I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.
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Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."