Lewis Carroll Quotes
Lewis Carroll Quotes
I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
1290 Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
3943 Curiouser and curiouser.
1647 have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
4575 If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
3961 And ever, as the story drained
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
"The rest next time-" "It is next time!"
The Happy voice cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland
4245 But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?
3152 You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.
2928 Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing-
turn your toes out when you walk-
And remember who you are!
3057 Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.
3559 Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
2025 Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
4346 Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
1310 It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
1391 What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
1979 Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
2452 Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
2033 What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
2498 One! two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snickersnack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
1309 I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
3637 But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
1309 what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
3305 And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?
2035 Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.
4308 No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
2251 It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!
3676 And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!
3026 What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?
-Alice in Wonderland
3930 I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
4859 All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
3665 Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
4027 I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense.
2947 But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything
2548 She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
3914 Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.
3748 Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter.
"It isn't mine," said the Hatter.
"Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
"I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.
1112 Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-at least I mean what I say-that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!
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