Lewis Carroll Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Children Quotes

When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

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

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...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

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

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The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

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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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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

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

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Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

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

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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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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

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Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

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I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

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The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

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