Lewis Carroll Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

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!

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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.

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One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

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

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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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“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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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.

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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.

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Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

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"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."

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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

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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.

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

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

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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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