Lewis Carroll Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

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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

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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.

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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

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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.

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I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

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Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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I am fond of children - except boys.

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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!

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If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

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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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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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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.

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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!

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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

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Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

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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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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.

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You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

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