Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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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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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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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
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People who don't think shouldn't talk.
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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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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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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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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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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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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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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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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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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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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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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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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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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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One can't believe impossible things.