Lewis Carroll Quotes

Yet what are all such gaieties to me Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? x²+7x+53 =11/3.

"Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little — but not on land — and not with needles — " Alice was beginning to say.

In her eyes is the living Hght Of a wanderer to earth From a far celestial height: Summers five are all the span — Summers five since Time began To veil in mists of human night A shining angel-birth. Does an angel look from her eyes? Will she suddenly spring away, And soar to her home in the skies? Beatrice! Blessing and blessed to be!

My father was a Brownie, Sir; My mother was a Fairy. The notion had occurred to her, The children would be happier, If they were taught to vary. The notion soon became a craze; And, when it once began, she Brought us all out in different ways - One was a Pixy, two were Fays, Another was a Banshee.

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

The pictures, with their ruddy light, Are changed to dust and ashes white, And I am left alone with night.

"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

It is better to be feared than loved.

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

An island-farm — broad seas of corn Stirred by the wandering breath of morn — The happy spot where I was born.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

All that matters is what we do for each other.

"آلیس گفت: "من نمیتونم اینو باور کنم."
ملکه گفت: "یه بار دیگه تلاش کن. یه نفس عمیق بکش و چشماتو ببند. حالا سعی کن باور کنی."
آلیس خندید: "سعی کردن فایده ای نداره. آدم نمیتونه چیزای غیرممکن رو باور کنه."
ملکه گفت:"خب به خاطر اینه که خوب تمرین نکردی. من وقتی همسن تو بودم، هر روز نیم ساعت تمرین میکردم. بعضی وقتا میتونستم قبل از صبحانه شیش تا چیز غیرممکنو باور کنم.