Quotes from Lewis Carroll

Me dirías, por favor, qué camino debería tomar desde aquí?" "Eso depende en gran parte de a dónde quieres ir", dijo el Gato.

I couldn't afford to learn it," said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. "I only took the regular course." "What was that?" inquired Alice. "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

i fenicònteri e la senape pizzicano entrambi, e la morale è questa—'Chi si rassembra s'assembra.

I look for butterflies That sleep among the wheat: I make them into mutton-pies, And sell them in the street. I sell them unto men." ; "But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter." ; "In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream?

so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, your sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough.

You may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.

Look on the branch above your head,' said the Gnat, 'and there you'll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.

It's too late to correct it," said the Red Queen: "when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.

You look a little shy; let me introduce you to that leg of mutton,' said the Red Queen. 'Alice—Mutton; Mutton—Alice.' The leg of mutton got up in the dish and made a little bow to Alice; and Alice returned the bow, not knowing whether to be frightened or amused.

However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so 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, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very

except a tiny golden key

that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison

Fan her head!' the Red Queen anxiously interrupted. 'She'll be feverish after so much thinking'.

She can't do Subtraction,' said the White Queen. 'Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what's the answer to that?

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

And the Gryphon added "Come, let's hear some of your adventures." "I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly; "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Es un tipo de memoria muy pobre la que solo funciona hacia atrás

Me parece que podrían hacer algo mejor con el tiempo", dijo, "que gastarlo preguntando acertijos que no tienen respuesta". "Si conocieras al Tiempo tan bien como yo", dijo el Sombrerero, "no hablarías de gastarlo. ¡Es todo un caballero!

with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.

I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Qué raro resulta todo hoy! Y pensar que ayer las cosas andaban como siempre. ¿Habré cambiado durante la noche? Pensemos: ¿era yo la misma cuando desperté esta mañana? Casi puedo recordar sentirme un poco distinta. Pero si no soy la misma, la siguiente pregunta es '¿Quién cuernos soy?' ¡Ah, ése es el gran dilema!

Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.