Lewis Carroll Quotes, Book Quotes, Mean Quotes

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

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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

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Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.

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"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

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This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

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Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

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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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A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

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It's always tea-time.

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have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

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It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

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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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