Lewis Carroll Quotes about Giving

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I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Lewis Carroll

Giving, Advice, Very Good

"Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Lewis Carroll

Helping Others, Giving, Goal

Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll

Long, Giving, Inspire

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.927, Race Point Pub

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

Lewis Carroll

Writing, Zest, Giving

Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation