Lewis Carroll citations

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“Plus bas, encore plus bas, toujours plus bas.”

“si l'on boit une bonne partie du contenu d'une bouteille portant l'étiquette: poison, ça ne manque presque jamais, tôt ou tard, d'être mauvais pour la santé.”

“semble drôle, pensa Alice, de faire des commissions pour un lapin ! Après ça, je suppose que c'est Dinah qui m'enverra faire des commissions !» Et elle”

“What a strange world we live in… Said Alice to the Queen of hearts”

“The time has come
The walrus said
To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships-
And sealing wax-
Of cabbages and kings-
And why the sae is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.”

“Do you suppose she's a wildflower?”

“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

“Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.”

“Sentence first; verdict afterwards." -Queen of Hearts”

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”

“Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.”

“Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.”

“Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!”

“Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!”

“If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”

“She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”

“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”

“Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

“up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky…”

“Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.”

“Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”

“But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”

“when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural”

“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”

“The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright--
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.”