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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. -- Lewis Carroll
Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well
' 'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop -- Lewis Carroll
And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"
"Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak. -- Lewis Carroll
Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!' 'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. -- Lewis Carroll
And her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, -- Lewis Carroll
How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! -- Lewis Carroll
Let craft, ambition, spite,
Be quenched in Reason's night,
Till weakness turn to might,
Till what is dark be light,
Till what is wrong be right! -- Lewis Carroll
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? -- Lewis Carroll
"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course." -- Lewis Carroll
Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards! -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting! -- Lewis Carroll
A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch! -- Lewis Carroll
No use, no use!' said the King. 'She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like-she's a dear good creature,' he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book. 'Do you spell "creature" with a double "e"? -- Lewis Carroll
Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love! -- Lewis Carroll
And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise? To rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that frightened you so when all was dark. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit. -- Lewis Carroll
So may it be for him, and me, and all of us!" I mused. "All that is evil, and dead, and hopeless, fading with the Night that is past! All that is good, and living, and hopeful, rising with the dawn of Day! -- Lewis Carroll
If I had but the time and you had but the brain -- Lewis Carroll
We haven't any and you're too young. -- Lewis Carroll
Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?' 'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited yet.' 'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished. -- Lewis Carroll
In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep. -- Lewis Carroll
In Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality
the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds
the rattling teacups would -- Lewis Carroll
But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person! -- Lewis Carroll
Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it? -- Lewis Carroll
She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. -- Lewis Carroll
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. -- Lewis Carroll
I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see? -- Lewis Carroll
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! -- Lewis Carroll
Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking -- Lewis Carroll
Or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit -- Lewis Carroll
So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. -- Lewis Carroll
Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing. -- Lewis Carroll
Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so.
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are. -- Lewis Carroll
Am I mad?"
"I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers! But I'll tell you a secret ... all of the best people are! -- Lewis Carroll
Have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are. -- Lewis Carroll
The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect. -- Lewis Carroll
Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir
' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept -- Lewis Carroll
Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry". Such is Human Perversity. -- Lewis Carroll
Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is- "Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'
'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody minding their own business!'
'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess. -- Lewis Carroll
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. -- Lewis Carroll
One can't believe impossible things. -- Lewis Carroll
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not -- Lewis Carroll
I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,
After so much reciting:
So, if you don't object, my dear,
We'll try a glass of bitter beer -
I think it looks inviting. -- Lewis Carroll
Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases! -- Lewis Carroll
But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one? -- Lewis Carroll
I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky. -- Lewis Carroll
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. -- Lewis Carroll
For the snark was a boojum, you see. -- Lewis Carroll
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things. -- Lewis Carroll
Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot. -- Lewis Carroll
Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat. -- Lewis Carroll
Either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, -- Lewis Carroll
So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality. -- Lewis Carroll
It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions. -- Lewis Carroll
Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been. -- Lewis Carroll
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? -- Lewis Carroll
Alice: Where Should I go?
Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up? -- Lewis Carroll
I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up. -- Lewis Carroll
Meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly ... -- Lewis Carroll
Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul -- Lewis Carroll
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless -- Lewis Carroll
My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything. -- Lewis Carroll
Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it. -- Lewis Carroll
I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very -- Lewis Carroll
Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, -- Lewis Carroll
Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?'
'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose:'what else is it good for?'
'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked.
'It could bark,' said the Rose. -- Lewis Carroll
Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread
A trifle, if you please. -- Lewis Carroll
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Beau
ootiful Soo
oop!
Beau
ootiful Soo
oop!
Soo
oop of the e
e
evening,
Beautiful, beautiful soup! -- Lewis Carroll
...It's more like a corkscrew than a path! -- Lewis Carroll
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it
once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the -- Lewis Carroll
But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! for then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again! -- Lewis Carroll
The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun. -- Lewis Carroll
It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. -- Lewis Carroll
It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief."
"I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered.
"Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully. -- Lewis Carroll
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! -- Lewis Carroll
Here is a golden Rule ... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule! -- Lewis Carroll
People who don't think shouldn't talk. -- Lewis Carroll
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
the slow result of life's decay,
To be once more a little child
for one bright summer day. -- Lewis Carroll
There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself. -- Lewis Carroll
pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: 'Did you speak?' 'Not I!' said the Lory -- Lewis Carroll
It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up -- if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else' -- but, oh, dear! -- Lewis Carroll
He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
'The one thing I regret,' he said,
'Is that it cannot speak! -- Lewis Carroll
A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing -
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of your rowing -
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say 'forget. -- Lewis Carroll
Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. -- Lewis Carroll
You're not the same as you were before, he said. You were much more ... muchier ... you've lost your muchness. -- Lewis Carroll
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, -- Lewis Carroll
So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name! -- Lewis Carroll
I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion. -- Lewis Carroll
Oh, I beg your pardon! she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the gold-fish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die. -- Lewis Carroll
poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker -- Lewis Carroll
She's stark raving mad! -- Lewis Carroll
Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time. -- Lewis Carroll
The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to -- Lewis Carroll
It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied. -- Lewis Carroll
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. -- Lewis Carroll
We called him Tortoise because he taught us. -- Lewis Carroll
Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, snarked. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second. -- Lewis Carroll
Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like -- Lewis Carroll
Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.) -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden. -- Lewis Carroll
Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on. -- Lewis Carroll
You may charge me with murder
or want of sense
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes! -- Lewis Carroll
we're all mad here. I'm -- Lewis Carroll
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! -- Lewis Carroll
And vinegar that makes them sour - and camomile that makes them bitter - and - and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know - -- Lewis Carroll
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. -- Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop. -- Lewis Carroll
My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time. -- Lewis Carroll
Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and -- 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 believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. -- Lewis Carroll
She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: -- Lewis Carroll
All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! -- Lewis Carroll
Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is. -- Lewis Carroll
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster. -- Lewis Carroll
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
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 -- Lewis Carroll
You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle
to get one's head cut off." pg. 199 -- Lewis Carroll
They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive! -- Lewis Carroll
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap. -- Lewis Carroll
I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do. -- Lewis Carroll
It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on! -- Lewis Carroll
It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. -- Lewis Carroll
How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here. -- Lewis Carroll
Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How -- Lewis Carroll
We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad -- Lewis Carroll
We're all mad here. -- Lewis Carroll
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. -- Lewis Carroll
I must be shutting up like a telescope. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea. -- Lewis Carroll
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. -- Lewis Carroll
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other. -- Lewis Carroll
The vast unfathomable sea
Is but a Notion-unto me. -- Lewis Carroll
His hair, from much running of fingers
through it, radiates in all directions and surrounds his head
like a halo of glory, or like the second Corollary of Euclid
I. 32. -- Lewis Carroll
Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word. -- Lewis Carroll
What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?
-Alice in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!' The -- Lewis Carroll
I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light! -- Lewis Carroll
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. -- Lewis Carroll
Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going. -- Lewis Carroll
I'm afraid I can't explain myself. Because I am not myself, you see? -- Lewis Carroll
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves. -- Lewis Carroll
Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can, And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran: Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea - And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three! -- Lewis Carroll
Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch! -- Lewis Carroll
I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.' Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156 -- Lewis Carroll
I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together! -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
It's always tea-time. -- Lewis Carroll
Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop. -- 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
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! -- Lewis Carroll
Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again! -- Lewis Carroll
buttons, and turns out his toes.' [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] 'That's different from what -- Lewis Carroll
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! -- Lewis Carroll
Perhaps it doesn't understand English, -- Lewis Carroll
As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood. -- Lewis Carroll
Belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too -- Lewis Carroll
The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead -
There were no birds to fly. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could. -- Lewis Carroll
earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"' 'Found what?' said the Duck. 'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course -- Lewis Carroll
That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
'Not quite right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; some of the words have got altered.'
'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes. -- Lewis Carroll
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. -- Lewis Carroll
I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! -- Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter which road you take. -- Lewis Carroll
By-the-bye, what became of the baby?" said the Cat. "I'd nearly forgotten to ask."
"It turned into a pig," Alice answered very quietly, just as if the Cat had come back in a natural way.
"I thought it would," said the Cat, and vanished again. -- Lewis Carroll
It sounds like a horse,' Alice thought to herself. And an extremely small voice, close to her ear, said, 'You might make a joke on that - something about "horse" and "hoarse," you know. -- Lewis Carroll
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. -- Lewis Carroll
You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk. -- Lewis Carroll
But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way
never to be an old woman
but then
always to have lessons to learn! -- Lewis Carroll
I entered my room, and undrew the window-curtains, just in time to see the sun burst in glory from his ocean-prison, and clothe the world in the light of a new day. -- Lewis Carroll
Say, can thy noble spirit stoop
To join the gormandising troop
Who find a solace in a soup? -- Lewis Carroll
A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly. Of course you reply, "I do it to save time". A very good object, no doubt: but what right have you to do it at your friend's expense? Isn't his time as valuable as yours? -- Lewis Carroll
This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell. -- Lewis Carroll
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either! -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it." -- Lewis Carroll
Whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up -- Lewis Carroll
If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain? -- Lewis Carroll
Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter -- Lewis Carroll
Came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! -- Lewis Carroll
And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking!No,it'll never do to ask:perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere. -- Lewis Carroll
daresay you haven't had much practice,' said -- Lewis Carroll
I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night. -- Lewis Carroll
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. -- Lewis Carroll
If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take. -- Lewis Carroll
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentile hand
Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined
In memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far off land. -- Lewis Carroll
We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near. -- Lewis Carroll
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none -
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers. -- Lewis Carroll
know,' said the Mouse. 'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have you got in your pocket?' he went -- Lewis Carroll
How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself. -- Lewis Carroll
And though the shadow of a sigh
May tremble through the story,
For "happy summer days" gone by,
And vanish'd summer glory
It shall not touch with breath of bale,
The pleasance of our fairy-tale. -- Lewis Carroll
Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad? -- Lewis Carroll
Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."
I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too! -- Lewis Carroll
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. -- Lewis Carroll
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? -- Lewis Carroll
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, -- Lewis Carroll
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar
if only he might stand on his head to learn it! -- 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
Life, what is it but a dream? -- Lewis Carroll
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. -- Lewis Carroll
altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, -- Lewis Carroll
Oysters followed -- Lewis Carroll
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. -- Lewis Carroll
Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar. -- Lewis Carroll
Had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; -- Lewis Carroll
And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation? -- Lewis Carroll
I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. -- Lewis Carroll
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied. -- Lewis Carroll
People have asked the question "Can a Thing exist without any Attributes belonging to it?" It is a very puzzling question, and I'm not going to try to answer it: let us turn up our noses, and treat it with contemptuous silence, as if it really wasn't worth noticing. -- Lewis Carroll
The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. -- 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
Are there any lions or tigers about here?' she asked timidly.
'It's only the Red King snoring,' said Tweedledee.
'Come and look at him!' the brothers cried, and they each took one of Alice's hands, and led her up to where the King was sleeping.
'Isn't he a LOVELY sight?' said Tweedledum. -- Lewis Carroll
Change to tinkling sheep- bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy
and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all -- Lewis Carroll
Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up -- Lewis Carroll
Hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! -- Lewis Carroll
And how do you know that you're mad? -- Lewis Carroll
But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all. -- Lewis Carroll
I wish I hadn't cried so much! -- Lewis Carroll
You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'! -- Lewis Carroll
But I was thinking of a plan
To dye one's whiskers green,
And always use so large a fan
That they could not be seen.
from The White Knights Song -- Lewis Carroll
Welcome to Wonderland! Here you will meet some of literature's most -- Lewis Carroll
I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it. -- Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. -- Lewis Carroll
I've a right to think," said Alice sharply.
"Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."
~ Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 ~ -- Lewis Carroll
Like a fable, Night when a Milky Way goes through the other Milky Way
My hope is standing
He walked with the speed of memories -- Lewis Carroll
Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible! -- Lewis Carroll
It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding! -- Lewis Carroll
But I was thinking of a way
To feed oneself on batter,
And so go on from day to day
Getting a little fatter. -- Lewis Carroll
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences. -- Lewis Carroll
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter. -- Lewis Carroll
I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked. -- Lewis Carroll
She who saves a single soul, saves the universe. -- Lewis Carroll
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 -- Lewis Carroll
We're add mad here. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
The time has come,the Walrus said, -- Lewis Carroll
Do you suppose she's a wildflower? -- Lewis Carroll
Sentence first; verdict afterwards. -Queen of Hearts -- Lewis Carroll
What is his sorrow?" [ ... ] "It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written. -- Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination. -- Lewis Carroll
You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people. -- Lewis Carroll
You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying. -- Lewis Carroll
And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies! -- Lewis Carroll
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve. -- Lewis Carroll
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it. -- Lewis Carroll
You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact. -- Lewis Carroll
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she -- Lewis Carroll
Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals. -- Lewis Carroll
It's a great huge game of chess that's being played
all over the world
if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join
though of course I should like to be a Queen, best. -- Lewis Carroll
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. -- Lewis Carroll
bottle that reads, "Drink me. -- Lewis Carroll
is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain -- Lewis Carroll
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. -- Lewis Carroll
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true. -- Lewis Carroll
If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know. -- Lewis Carroll
Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now! -- Lewis Carroll
'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied. -- Lewis Carroll
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried -- Lewis Carroll
She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny something -only she doesn't know what to deny! -- Lewis Carroll
I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again. -- Lewis Carroll
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour. -- Lewis Carroll
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. -- Lewis Carroll
It's done by everyone minding their own business -- Lewis Carroll
Am i insane" asked alice
"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father -- Lewis Carroll
If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think. -- Lewis Carroll
With a sort of mental squint. -- Lewis Carroll
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, -- Lewis Carroll
She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. -- Lewis Carroll
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
Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice hand been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be the rest. -- Lewis Carroll
and illustrations are in the public domain and are free to use, reproduce, or alter as desired. Cover and -- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -- Lewis Carroll
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. -- Lewis Carroll
And graphic design elements and alterations are property of Bookbyte Digital and may be used as long as credit -- Lewis Carroll
I wish I could manage to be glad!" the Queen said. "Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like! -- Lewis Carroll
If, in picking a quarrel, each party declined to go more than three-eighths of the way, and if, in making friends, each was ready to go five-eighths of the way - why, there would be more reconciliations than quarrels! -- Lewis Carroll
It had a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast -- Lewis Carroll
Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone! -- Lewis Carroll
Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else. -- Lewis Carroll
I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum) -- Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty. -- Lewis Carroll
When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra. -- Lewis Carroll
And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?"
"Three hundred and sixty-four, of course."
Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said. -- Lewis Carroll
that the way you manage?' Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and -- Lewis Carroll
Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder. -- Lewis Carroll
After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples; they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: -- Lewis Carroll
Said the Knave, I didn't write it and they can't prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end. -- Lewis Carroll
No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. -- Lewis Carroll
But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything -- Lewis Carroll
Scarce was the verdict spoken,
When that still calm was broken,
A childish form hath burst into the throng;
With tears and looks of sadness,
That bring no news of gladness,
But tell too surely something hath gone wrong! -- Lewis Carroll
It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others. -- Lewis Carroll
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration. -- Lewis Carroll
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted. -- Lewis Carroll
This is impossible,
Only if you believe it is. -- Lewis Carroll
I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide -- Lewis Carroll
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book. -- Lewis Carroll
her, calling out in a confused way, 'Prizes! Prizes!' Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the -- Lewis Carroll
People that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as -- Lewis Carroll
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it. -- Lewis Carroll
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts - it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts - it is unusual to offer both. -- Lewis Carroll
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. -- Lewis Carroll
Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!" -- Lewis Carroll
I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears ! -- Lewis Carroll
stuff and nonsense -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I am not the same, the next question is Who in the world am I? -- Lewis Carroll
Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"
but, -- Lewis Carroll
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:
The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town.
Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown:
Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town. -- Lewis Carroll
In summer, when the days are long, Perhaps you'll understand the song: In Autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down. -- Lewis Carroll
ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL
charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed
'a sadder and a wiser -- Lewis Carroll
Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!' By this time -- Lewis Carroll
Meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict. -- Lewis Carroll
Is all our life then, but a dream? -- Lewis Carroll
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment? -- Lewis Carroll
You've lost your muchness. -- Lewis Carroll
So she brushed away her tears, and went on, as cheerfully as she could. -- Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. -- Lewis Carroll
Who cares for you? You're nothing but a pack of cards! -- Lewis Carroll
Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank. -- Lewis Carroll
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo. -- Lewis Carroll
Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '
but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia? -- Lewis Carroll
Not like cats " cried the Mouse in a shrill passionate voice. "Would you like cats if you were me -- Lewis Carroll
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. -- Lewis Carroll
The further off from England the nearer is to France-
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. -- Lewis Carroll
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. -- Lewis Carroll
Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
"Or else it doesn't, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking -- Lewis Carroll
I pictured myself the Queen of Hearts as sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury -- Lewis Carroll
Can a Thing exist without any Attributes belonging to it? -- Lewis Carroll
In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight - -- Lewis Carroll
unimportant--important--' as -- Lewis Carroll
To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me. -- Lewis Carroll
I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand? -- Lewis Carroll
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where - ' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. -- Lewis Carroll
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she -- Lewis Carroll
In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean. -- Lewis Carroll
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she -- Lewis Carroll
Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And -- Lewis Carroll
What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. -- Lewis Carroll
He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, 'because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.'
Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone.
Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen. -- Lewis Carroll
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? -- Lewis Carroll
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). -- Lewis Carroll
When she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural -- Lewis Carroll
Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths? -- 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
Down the Rabbit-Hole -- Lewis Carroll
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. -- Lewis Carroll
Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup? -- Lewis Carroll
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale. -- Lewis Carroll
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful! -- Lewis Carroll
What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice. 'Nothing,' said Alice. 'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King. 'Nothing whatever,' said Alice. -- Lewis Carroll
Were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the -- Lewis Carroll
get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice -- Lewis Carroll
Am I addressing the White Queen?' 'Well, yes, if you call that a-dressing, -- Lewis Carroll
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! -- Lewis Carroll
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. -- Lewis Carroll
Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. "It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same. -- Lewis Carroll
Very poor speaker," said the King. "You may go," said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court. -- Lewis Carroll
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. -- Lewis Carroll
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary! -- Lewis Carroll
You couldn't have it if you DID want it. -- Lewis Carroll
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. -- Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -- Lewis Carroll
"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." -- Lewis Carroll
Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream, -- Lewis Carroll
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! -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
What I tell you three times is true. -- Lewis Carroll
Then it doesn't matter which way you walk ... -so long as I get somewhere. -- Lewis Carroll
Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best. -- Lewis Carroll
Actually the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of a Adventures. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. There -- Lewis Carroll
My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that. -- Lewis Carroll
Honey Citrus Fruit Kabab -- Lewis Carroll
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. -- Lewis Carroll
In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do. -- Lewis Carroll
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. -- 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
It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does. -- Lewis Carroll
Who Stole the Tarts? -- Lewis Carroll
Flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is
Birds of a feather flock together. -- Lewis Carroll
Birds of a feather flock together -- Lewis Carroll
deep well. Either the -- Lewis Carroll
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this. -- Lewis Carroll
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are! -- Lewis Carroll
And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark. -- Lewis Carroll
I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours. -- Lewis Carroll
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. -- Lewis Carroll
You can't be that good; you work for me. -- Lewis Carroll
What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs! -- Lewis Carroll
she swallowed one of the cakes, -- Lewis Carroll
I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry. -- Lewis Carroll
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts. -- Lewis Carroll
A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful. -- Lewis Carroll
I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! -- Lewis Carroll
She saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; -- Lewis Carroll
Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, -- Lewis Carroll
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity -- Lewis Carroll
ORANGE MARMALADE', -- Lewis Carroll
Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat -- Lewis Carroll
PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points. -- Lewis Carroll
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice -- Lewis Carroll
I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all. -- Lewis Carroll
The Jury had each formed a different view
Long before the indictment was read
And they all spoke at once so that none of them knew
One word that the other had said -- Lewis Carroll
dreams are not reality, but who's to say which is which -- Lewis Carroll
Why, what a temper you are in! -- Lewis Carroll
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see. -- Lewis Carroll
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time. -- Lewis Carroll
absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. -- Lewis Carroll
Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. -- Lewis Carroll
In vain we roared;in vain we tried
To rouse her into laughter:
Her pensive glances wandered wide
From orchestra to rafter -
"TIER UPON TIER!" she said,and sighed;
And silence followed after. -- Lewis Carroll
You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic. -- Lewis Carroll
How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. -- Lewis Carroll
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. -- Lewis Carroll
At any rate, there's no harm in trying. -- Lewis Carroll
- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to? -- Lewis Carroll
He wasn't running," said Bruno, "and he wasn't crawling. He went struggling along like a portmanteau. And he held his chin ever so high in the air - -- Lewis Carroll
There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am. -- Lewis Carroll
I don't think ... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. -- Lewis Carroll
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes ... "
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young. -- Lewis Carroll
If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [ ... ]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. -- Lewis Carroll
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it
it was the black kitten's fault entirely. -- Lewis Carroll
A while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, -- Lewis Carroll
The Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, -- Lewis Carroll
Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke. -- Lewis Carroll
The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder? -- Lewis Carroll
I didn't know that cats could grin.'
'They all can,' said the Duchess, 'and most of 'em do. -- Lewis Carroll
Is Life itself a dream, I wonder? -- Lewis Carroll
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. -- Lewis Carroll
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short
not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. -- Lewis Carroll
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it. -- Lewis Carroll
They've a temper, some of them
particularly verbs: they're the proudest
adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs
however I can manage the whole lot of them! -- Lewis Carroll
If it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, -- Lewis Carroll
Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us. -- Lewis Carroll
By which I get my wealth
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour's noble health. -- Lewis Carroll
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? -- Lewis Carroll
You're enough to try the patience of an oyster! -- Lewis Carroll
I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! -- Lewis Carroll
howling alternately -- Lewis Carroll
Wonderland, though -- Lewis Carroll
It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole
and yet
and yet
... -- Lewis Carroll
Consider anything, only don't cry! -- Lewis Carroll
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare. -- Lewis Carroll
Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. -- Lewis Carroll
All that matters is what we do for each other. -- Lewis Carroll
We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to -- Lewis Carroll
burning with curiosity -- Lewis Carroll
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. -- Lewis Carroll
Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! -- Lewis Carroll
I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole - and yet - and yet - it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! -- Lewis Carroll
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late! -- Lewis Carroll
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see. -- Lewis Carroll
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant. -- Lewis Carroll
Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you. -- Lewis Carroll
Tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters. -- Lewis Carroll
I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more -- Lewis Carroll
The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however. -- Lewis Carroll
I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. -- Lewis Carroll
What a strange world we live in ... Said Alice to the Queen of hearts -- Lewis Carroll
Alice: I simply must get through!
Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible.
Alice: You mean impossible?
Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible. -- Lewis Carroll
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much! -- Lewis Carroll
Well that's it: if you don't think, you shouldn't talk! -- Lewis Carroll
Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham? -- Lewis Carroll
Alice thought to herself I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin. -- Lewis Carroll
It is better to be feared than loved. -- Lewis Carroll
You know very well you're not real. -- Lewis Carroll
You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy. -- Lewis Carroll
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read! -- Lewis Carroll
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud. -- Lewis Carroll
What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1 -- Lewis Carroll
'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much ... -- Lewis Carroll
You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing. -- Lewis Carroll
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it
- the Dutchess -- Lewis Carroll
And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming over with quivering curds! -- Lewis Carroll
waistcoat-pocket, -- Lewis Carroll
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? -- Lewis Carroll
And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. -- Lewis Carroll
You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,' said the sheep: 'but you can't look ALL round you - unless you've got eyes at the back of your head. -- Lewis Carroll
You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
'It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter[ ... ]. -- Lewis Carroll
I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place on. -- Lewis Carroll
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. -- Lewis Carroll
noticed, had powdered hair that curled all -- Lewis Carroll
Curiouser and curiouser! -- Lewis Carroll
Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves -- Lewis Carroll
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless. -- Lewis Carroll
I am fond of children - except boys. -- Lewis Carroll
Alice gave a little scream of laughter. -- Lewis Carroll
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! -- Lewis Carroll
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford. -- Lewis Carroll
Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar. -- Lewis Carroll
It's all in your head, Alice. -- Lewis Carroll
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. -- Lewis Carroll
Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to ... -- Lewis Carroll
curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl -- Lewis Carroll
Just then she heard something splashing -- Lewis Carroll
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, -- Lewis Carroll
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation -- Lewis Carroll
No use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute! -- Lewis Carroll
And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? -- Lewis Carroll
Curiouser and curiouser! Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). -- Lewis Carroll
I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls. -- Lewis Carroll
She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! -- Lewis Carroll
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. -- Lewis Carroll
How can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it? -- Lewis Carroll
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. -- Lewis Carroll
By-the-bye, what became of the baby? -- Lewis Carroll
I didn't say there was nothing BETTER,' the King replied. 'I said there was nothing LIKE it.' Which Alice did not venture to deny. 'Who -- Lewis Carroll
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0 -- Lewis Carroll
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! -- Lewis Carroll
At first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each -- Lewis Carroll
It's a large as life and twice as natural -- Lewis Carroll
But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's a great puzzle! -- Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning -- Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. -- Lewis Carroll
The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things. -- Lewis Carroll
Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word! -- Lewis Carroll
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. -- Lewis Carroll
