Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 2

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• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Philosophical, Genius

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Prayer, Kindness, Father

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.157, Springer

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• Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

  Lewis Carroll

  Matter, Way, Plans

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• Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Different, Looks

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

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• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Thinking, Feminist

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

  Lewis Carroll

  Love, Names, Secret

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1747, Delphi Classics

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• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean Girls, Use, Tone

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Laughing, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (1965). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.15, Dramatic Publishing

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• I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

  Lewis Carroll

  Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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• But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye

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• If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

  Lewis Carroll

  Wise, Would Be, Wonderland

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

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• No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

  Lewis Carroll

  Two, Use, Conversation

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

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• Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
  "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
  "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
  "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
  "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
  "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

  Lewis Carroll

  Crazy, Cat, People

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “CliffsComplete Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, Cliffs Notes

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• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Carpe Diem, Vision

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Success, Art

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.13, Bibliolis Books

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• Curiouser and curiouser.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lit

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

  Lewis Carroll

  People, Way, Knows

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

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• She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Soul, Universe

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• If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

  Lewis Carroll

  Doe, Wonderland, World

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

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• Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

  Lewis Carroll

  Recycling, Form, Better Late Than Never

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

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• If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Believe In Me, Believe In You

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.56, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Mean, Use

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Nonsense, Right Direction

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