Lewis Carroll Quotes

“Who cares for you?” said Alice. “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”

“What is the use of a book”, thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

Alice couldn’t help smiling as she took out her memorandum- book, and worked the sum for him: 365 minus 1 equals 364. Humpty Dumpty took the book, and looked at it carefully. “That seems to be done right – ” he began. “You’re holding it upside down!” Alice interrupted. “To be sure I was!” Humpty […]

“Well now that we have seen each other,” said the Unicorn. “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”

“Begin at the beginning,”, the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

“I beg your pardon?” said Alice. “It isn’t respectable to beg,” said the King.

But someone came to me and said “The little fishes are in bed.” I said to him, and I said it plain “Then you must wake them up again.” I said it very loud and clear, I went and shouted in his ear. But he was very stiff and proud, He said “You needn’t shout […]

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing… and the different branches of Arithmetic- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak – Pray, how did you manage to do it? “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; […]

“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before, And make errors few people could bear; You complain about everyone’s English but yours – Do you really think this is quite fair?” – “I make lots of mistakes,” Father William declared, “But my stature these days is so great That no critic can hurt […]