Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
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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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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
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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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Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
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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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Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
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With a sort of mental squint.
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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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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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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 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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I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.
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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
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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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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.