Quotes from Lewis Carroll

but he had seldom been used with patience or forbearance. He prided himself on his self-control. It had been whipped into him by the mockery of his fellows. Then they called him cynical and callous. He had acquired calmness of demeanour and under most circumstances an unruffled exterior, so that now he could not show his feelings.

that the way you manage?' Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?

But I was thinking of a plan To dye one's whiskers green, And always use so large a fan That they could not be seen. from The White Knights Song

si l'on boit une bonne partie du contenu d'une bouteille portant l'étiquette: poison , ça ne manque presque jamais, tôt ou tard, d'être mauvais pour la santé.

le gustan los gatos!", gritó el ratón con voz apasionada y penetrante. "¿Te gustarían los gatos si fueses yo?"   "Bueno, puede que no", dijo Alicia en tono conciliador: "no se enoje. Y así y todo me encantaría presentarle a nuestra gata Dinah. Si sólo la viera, creo que le tomaría cariño a los gatos.

we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

I kept his letters in a sandalwood box and covered them every day with the flowers I gathered in the garden.

My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?

Sometimes things that look safe, turn out nasty, and things that look nasty, turn out safe.

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping that she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules of shutting people on telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it (which certainly was not there before, said Alice), and tied round the neck round the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it with large letters.

Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For

That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where—' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

See the Sun is overhead

This is impossible, Only if you believe it is.

Wake up, Alice dear!'' Said her sister ''Why,what along sleep you've had!'' ''Oh, I've had such a curious dream!'' Said Alice. and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about ;

This style of literature was called Nonsense and Carroll was universally acknowledged to be its undisputed master.

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

get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank

Said the Mock Turtle with a sight, I only took the regular course. What was that? inquired Alice. Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with, the Mock Turtle replied, and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

Sí que lo olvidarás, si no lo escribes.

learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off

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