Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 5

One can't believe impossible things.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

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

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

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

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.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.