Quotes from Lewis Carroll

What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines? So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply They are merely conventional signs!

Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple

But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.

she swallowed one of the cakes

Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting

I didn't say there was nothing BETTER,' the King replied. 'I said there was nothing LIKE it.' Which Alice did not venture to deny. 'Who

What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter 'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose YOUR temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

Tanr?m! Bugün her ÅŸey ne tuhaf! Daha dün her ÅŸey kendi olaÄŸan halindeydi. Acaba ben gece mi deÄŸiÅŸtim? Bir düÅŸüneyim: Bu sabah kalkt???mda ben ben miydim? Sanki biraz farkl? gibiydim, ama ben ayn? ben deÄŸilsem, o zaman yahu ben kimim? Ä°ÅŸte as?l bilmece bu!

One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. 'Herald

I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.'" Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156

Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you

Alice didn't like being criticised, so she began asking questions. Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you? There's the tree in the middle, said the Rose: what else is it good for? But what could it do, if any danger came? Alice asked. It could bark, said the Rose. It says 'Bough-wough!' cried a Daisy, that's why its branches are called boughs!

Come up again, dear! I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else--but

Aber ich mag nicht unter verrückte Leuten gehen, bemerkte Alice. Oh, dagegen kann man nichts machen, sagte die Katze; wir sind hier alle verrückt.Ich bin verrückt. Du bist verrückt. Woher weißt du denn, dass ich verrückt bin?, fragte Alice. Du musst es sein, sagte die Katze, sonst wärst du nicht hierhergekommen.

To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

It's all in your head, Alice.

After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples; they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit:

Quién soy yo, primero? Contéstenme, y luego, si me gusta ser esa persona, subiré, si no, me quedaré aquí abajo hasta que sea otra...

A Mad Tea-Party

Todo tiene una moraleja, si eres capaz de encontrarla.

Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And

came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!

so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

If I wasn't real,' Alice said—half-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous—'I shouldn't be able to cry.' 'I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?' Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.