Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.
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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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When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!
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Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.
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One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.
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Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!
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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.
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I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
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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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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.