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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
Lewis Carroll -
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!
Lewis Carroll
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
Lewis Carroll -
If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
Lewis Carroll -
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
Lewis Carroll -
We haven't any and you're too young.
Lewis Carroll -
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
Lewis Carroll -
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis Carroll
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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!
Lewis Carroll -
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.
Lewis Carroll -
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.
Lewis Carroll -
In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.
Lewis Carroll -
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.
Lewis Carroll -
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Lewis Carroll
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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll -
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
Lewis Carroll -
My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
Lewis Carroll -
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
Lewis Carroll -
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
Lewis Carroll -
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.
Lewis Carroll
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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.
Lewis Carroll -
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?
Lewis Carroll -
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Lewis Carroll -
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Lewis Carroll