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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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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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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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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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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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 of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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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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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
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It's always tea-time.
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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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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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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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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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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
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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.