Quotes from Lewis Carroll

I've often seen a cat without a grin...but a grin without a cat!It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life! Alice's adventures in wonderland.

Quero dizer que uma pessoa não pode evitar ficar mais velha' 'Uma não pode, talvez', disse Humpty Dumpty, 'mas duas podem. Com a devida assistência, talvez, você teria podido parar em sete'.

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

the only painting worth anything was done with the heart.

Meu nome é Alice, mas...' 'Um nome bem bobo!' Humpty Dumpty a interrompeu com impaciência. 'O que significa?' 'Um nome deve significar alguma coisa?' Alice perguntou ambiguamente 'Claro que deve', Humpty Dumpy respondeu com uma risada curta.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! - alice and wonderland

How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.

Qui siamo tutti matti. Io sono matto. Tu sei matta. Come lo sai che sono matta? disse Alice. Altrimenti non saresti venuta qui, disse il Gatto.

I am not strange, weird, off, not crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

Sometimes I've believed more than six impossible things before breakfast.

The Jury had each formed a different view Long before the indictment was read And they all spoke at once so that none of them knew One word that the other had said

were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the

When you come to any passage you don't understand, read it again: if you still don't understand it, read it again: if you fail, even after three readings, very likely your brain is getting a little tired. In that case, put the book away, and take to other occupations, and next day, when you come to it fresh, you will very likely find that it is quite easy.

WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen 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

I don't much care where-" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," "so long as I get somewhere," "Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough"/ "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."/ Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! The love-gift of a fairy-tale. ?Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass?

Ah, isso é inevitável - disse o Gato. — Somos todos malucos aqui. Eu sou maluco. Você é maluca. — Por que diz que sou maluca? - indagou Alice. — Só pode ser - disse o Gato, — ou não teria vindo parar aqui.

the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET

I'm older than you, and must know better." And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.

people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as

De eso me quejo! ¡Es que deberías haber dicho lo que querías! ¿De qué sirve una niña que habla sin sentido? Incluso los chistes deben tener un sentido y los niños son más importantes que los chistes, espero.

Concordo com você - disse a duquesa, — e a moral disso é: Seja o que você parece ser, ou, se preferir a forma simplificada, Jamais imagine ser diferente do que aparentaria ser aos outros do que foi ou poderia ter sido se não fosse o que teria sido se aparentasse ser diferente para eles.