Lewis Carroll Quotes
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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
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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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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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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
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There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.
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Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.
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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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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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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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One can't believe impossible things.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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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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The light was faint, and soft the air That breathed around the place; And she was lithe, and tall, and fair, And with a wayward grace Her queenly head she bare.
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We haven't any and you're too young.
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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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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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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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It's always tea-time.