Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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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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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
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Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?
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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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...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
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But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
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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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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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So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.
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You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.
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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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I suppose every child has a world of his own - and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
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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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Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.
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One can't believe impossible things.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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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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When she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural.
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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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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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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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What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.