Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
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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.
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"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"
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Curiouser and curiouser.
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Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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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.
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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.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
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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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They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
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In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.
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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!
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'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.
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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.
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
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Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
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