Lewis Carroll Quotes
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
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There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!
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Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.
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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.
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Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.
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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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Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.
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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.
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One can't believe impossible things.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
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I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.
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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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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: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
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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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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.