Lewis Carroll Quotes

• ‘That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone. ‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I always pay it extra.’

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• ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’

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• ‘They gave it me,’ Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully… ‘for an un-birthday present.’

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• With a name like yours you might be any shape, almost.

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• ‘It’s very provoking,’ Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, ‘to be called an egg—very!’

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• 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.’

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• Consider anything, only don’t cry!

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• ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.

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• The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.

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• ‘You know,’ he said very gravely, ‘it’s one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle—to get one’s head cut off.’

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• ‘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 sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.’

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• The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: ‘If this were only cleared away,’ They said, ‘it would be grand!’

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• 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.

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• ‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘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.’

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• Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoilt his nice new rattle.

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• ‘You shouldn’t make jokes,’ Alice said, ‘if it makes you so unhappy.’

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• Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!

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• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

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

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• ‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’

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Birth:	27th January, 1832
Death:	14th January, 1898
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Anglican, Artist, Author, Mathematician, Photographer

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