Lewis Carroll Quotes
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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.
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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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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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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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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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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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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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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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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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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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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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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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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.