Lewis Carroll Quotes, Two Quotes, People Quotes

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Two Quotes , People Quotes

I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Mean Quotes , Talking Quotes

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!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Greek Quotes , Vex Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Running Quotes , Party Quotes

My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Moving Quotes , Air Quotes

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Games Quotes

Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Sea Quotes , Way Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Important Quotes , Caterpillars Quotes

Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Circles Quotes

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Wonderland Quotes , Minutes Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Morning Quotes , Thinking Quotes

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Mind Quotes , World Quotes

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Good Man Quotes

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Through The Looking Glass Quotes , Cry Quotes

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Flamingos Quotes , Firsts Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Cat Quotes , Bats Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Dark Quotes , Men Quotes

Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Party Quotes , Tea Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Dog Quotes , Thinking Quotes