Quotes from Lewis Carroll

It is her solidity that is magical. The wonders are not wild or strange but odd and curious.

Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?—and she tried to curtsey

Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears

for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

What! Never heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose?' 'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means — to — make — anything — prettier.' 'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.

Si no tiene sentido", dijo el Rey, "eso nos salva de un montón de problemas, sabes, porque no hace falta que le busquemos uno.

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

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.

Cuando yo uso una palabra -insistió Humpty Dumpty con un tono de voz más bien desdeñoso- quiere decir lo que yo quiero que diga…, ni más ni menos.

It isn't respectable to beg

Cuando yo uso una palabra —insistió Humpty Dumpty con un tono de voz más bien desdeñoso— quiere decir lo que yo quiero que diga..., ni más ni menos. —La cuestión —insistió Alicia— es si se puede hacer que las palabras signifiquen tantas cosas diferentes. —La cuestión —zanjó Humpty Dumpty— es saber quién es el que manda..., eso es todo.

going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when

explanations take such a dreadful time

she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to

not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through

shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. Who cares for you? said Alice (she had grown to her full size by this time).

Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept

Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.

Tu cara es idéntica a la de los demás…, ahí, un par de ojos… (señalando su lugar en el aire con el pulgar), la nariz, en el medio, la boca debajo. Siempre igual. En cambio, si tuvieras los dos ojos del mismo lado de la cara, por ejemplo…, o la boca en la frente…, eso sí que sería diferente.

a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The