Lewis Carroll quotes - page 11

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again. (Lewis Carroll)
I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story - I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it - but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea' - is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again. View quote
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He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the bus He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. If this should stay to dine,' he said, There won't be much for us' View quote
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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! View quote
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance. View quote
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What I tell you three times is true. View quote
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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. View quote
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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know. View quote
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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! View quote
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The further off from England, the nearer is to France - Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. View quote
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Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. 'I do, ' Alice hastily replied 'at least I mean what I say, that's the same thing, you know.' 'Not the same thing a bit' said the Hatter. 'Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see. (Lewis Carroll)
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors. View quote
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''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. View quote
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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. View quote
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It's very good jam,' said the Queen. 'Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate.' 'You couldn't have it if you did want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day.' 'It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day, 'Alice objected. 'No it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every other day to-day isn't any other day, you know.' 'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing. View quote
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Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time. View quote
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It's as large as life and twice as natural. View quote
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In my youth,' said his father, 'I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life. View quote
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The horror of that moment, the King went on, I shall never, never forget You will, though, the Queen said, if you don't make a memorandum of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take' she asked. 'Where do you want to go' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.' (Lewis Carroll)
It the Cheshire Cat vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. View quote
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You would have to be half mad to dream me up. View quote
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One, two One, two and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. View quote
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Finally my Hiawatha Tumbled all the tribe together, ('Grouped' is not the right expression), And, as happy chance would have it Did at last obtain a picture Where the faces all succeeded: Each came out a perfect likeness.Then they joined and all abused it, Unrestrainedly abused it, As the worst and ugliest picture They could possibly have dreamed of. 'Giving one such strange expressions - Sullen, stupid, pert expressions. Really any one would take us (Any one that did not know us) For the most unpleasant people!' (Hiawatha seemed to think so, Seemed to think it not unlikely.) View quote
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