Quotes from Lewis Carroll

meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly...

At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. 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.

Di siempre la verdad: piensa antes de hablar y escribe lo que digas después.

A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly. Of course you reply, "I do it to save time". A very good object, no doubt: but what right have you to do it at your friend's expense? Isn't his time as valuable as yours?

had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She

ladies & gentlemen, the Professor began, the Other Professor is so kind as to recite a Poem. The title of it is 'The Pig-Tale.' He never recited it before! (General cheering among the guests.) He will never recite it again! (Frantic excitement, & wild cheering all down the hall, the Professor himself mounting the table in hot haste, to lead the cheering, & waving his spectacles in one hand & a spoon in the other.)

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages — enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.

Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)

WITH ALICE'S LOVE).

It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!

Lütfen söyler misiniz, buradan ne tarafa doÄŸru gitmeliyim?' 'Bu daha çok nereye varmak istediÄŸine baÄŸl?,' dedi Kedi. 'Neresi olursa olsun...' dedi Alice. 'Öyleyse ne tarafa doÄŸru gideceÄŸinin önemi yok,' dedi Kedi. 'Bir yerlere varay?m da, gerisi önemli deÄŸil,' diye ekledi Alice, ne istediÄŸini daha iyi anlatabilmek için. 'Kesin bir yerlere var?rs?n,' dedi Kedi, 'tabii yeterince yürürsen.

Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!

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.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?

Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!' There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, 'Sure, I don't

but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

lo mejor caigo a través de toda la tierra! ¡Qué divertido sería salir donde vive esta gente que anda cabeza abajo! Los antipáticos, creo...

I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

So young a child, said the gentleman sitting opposite to her, (he was dressed in white paper,) ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

without—Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know—

GörüneceÄŸin gibi ol,'...ya da daha bir sadeleÅŸtirirsek...'Kendinin baÅŸkalar?na görünebileceÄŸinden farkl? olmad???n?, önceden olan ya da olmuÅŸ olabilen halinin de, baÅŸkalar?na farkl? görünmüÅŸ olacak olan daha da önceki halinden farkl? olmad???n? asla zannetme.