Lewis Carroll: Trending quotes (page 9)

“I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)”

“Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases!”

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

“People who don't think shouldn't talk.”

“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.”

“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”

“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”

“We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.”

“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”

“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to…”

“I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!”

“How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly he spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!”

“But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?”

“It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--…”

“That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.”

“Life, what is it but a dream?”

“Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.”

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

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”