Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 6

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• burning with curiosity

  Lewis Carroll

  Curiosity, Burning

  Lewis Carroll, Glenn Diddit (2009). “Glenn Diddit's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.79, Glenn Diddit

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• You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Want, Through The Looking Glass, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.44, Pan Macmillan

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• You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

  Lewis Carroll

  Unhappy, Jokes, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass JESUK147”, p.17, Classic Comic Store Ltd.

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• I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Atoms, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.73, PDFreeBooks.org

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• So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mind, Would Be, Trouble

  H.Y. Xiao PhD, Lewis Carroll (1959). “01 - Alice in Wonderland (Traditional Chinese): 愛麗絲夢遊仙境(繁體)”, p.4, eBooks Series

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• That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lessons, Reason, Day To Day

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• There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1963). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.36, Collector's Library

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Moving, Eye, Sky

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1682, Delphi Classics

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adventure, Wonderland, Care

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Kings, Trying, World

  Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.120, Wordsworth Editions

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• If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Writing, Years

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

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• "All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Tails, Gone

  1865 The disappearance of the Cheshire Cat. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.

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• May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Sleep, Insanity

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling (1994). “Lewis Carroll's Diaries: Containing Journal 4, January to December 1856”

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• Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Dream, Dark

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Knowledge, Thinking, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.15, Branden Books

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• Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Quality, Pay

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

  Lewis Carroll

  Habit, Kitten, Made

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 12: Which Dreamed it?, 1871.

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• Who sail on stormy seas;
  And that's the way I get my bread --
  A trifle, if you please.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Way, Bread

  Lewis Carroll “Through The Looking Glass : Om Illustrated Classics”, Om Books International

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• Why is a raven like a writing desk?

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Mad

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865).

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Bedtime, Aging

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

  Lewis Carroll

  Girl, Boys, Covered Up

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.235, Springer

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• So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Names, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.50

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• Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking, Courtesy

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 2

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• I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,
  After so much reciting:
  So, if you don't object, my dear,
  We'll try a glass of bitter beer -
  I think it looks inviting.

  Lewis Carroll

  Beer, Thinking, Glasses

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.623, Race Point Pub

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• "I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Work, Done

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