Quotes About Carroll

The questions are the danger. Leave them alone and they sleep. Ask them, awake them, and more than you know will begin to rise.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

'Roc' was sort of an experiment because none of the lead actors on our show had any real television experience, especially in half-hour TV.

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her

curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl

It's the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life!

A Mad Tea-Party

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

ARE you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's the first question, you know.

In that direction... lives a Hatter, and in that direction... lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.

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

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

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).

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

White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he

That was a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence. "And now for the garden!

ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so

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

noticed, had powdered hair that curled all

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

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