Quotes from Lewis Carroll

It's the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life!

The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she

In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight—

It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.

Por lo general, son caras ante las que pasamos sin darnos cuenta.

All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.

Intendo dire", disse Alice, "che uno non può fare a meno di crescere." "Uno forse non può", disse Humpty Dumpty, "ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!' The

I shouldn't know you again if we did meet,' Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone, giving her one of his fingers to shake; `you're so exactly like other people.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence of childhood—

about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either

anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.) Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this

Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!

I'll whisper it, said the Messenger, putting his hands to his mouth in the shape of a trumpet and stooping so as to get close to the King's ear. However, instead of whispering, he simply shouted at the top of his voice They're at it again! Do you call THAT a whisper? cried the poor King, jumping up and shaking himself. If you do such a thing again, I'll have you buttered! It went through and through my head like an earthquake!

this was a book about working out who you were. About identity, constant and threatened.

and the moral of that is —"Be what you would seem to be"— or if you'd like it put more simply —"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English [...]

In most gardens' the Tiger-lily said, ' they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep.' This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it. 'I never thought of that before!' she said. 'It's MY opinion that you never think AT ALL,' the rose said in a rather severe tone.

buttons, and turns out his toes.' [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] 'That's different from what

Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!

you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! 'How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!' 'I'm