Lewis Carroll Quotes, Dream Quotes, Children Quotes

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.

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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

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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.

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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

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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.

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

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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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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.

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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

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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.

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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!

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