Lewis Carroll Quotes
Most popular Lewis Carroll Quotes
Remember who you are.
Life, what is it but a dream?
Love makes the world go round.
Everything has got a moral, if only you can find it.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
I give myself very good advice But I very seldom follow it.
His answer trickled through my head, Like water through a sieve.
Begin at the beginning and go till you come to the end; then stop.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
One of the deepest secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
When I use a word, said Humpty Dumpty, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."
'If everybody minded their own business,' said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a great deal faster than it does.'
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedle-dee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
"Where shall I begin, please your majesty?" she asked. "Begin at the beginning," the king said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.
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.
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'
'I can't believe that!' said Alice. 'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.' Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. '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.'
