Lewis Carroll Quotes
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You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
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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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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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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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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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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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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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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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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!
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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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It's always tea-time.
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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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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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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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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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Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.