Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time. Lewis Carroll More Quotes by Lewis Carroll More Quotes From Lewis Carroll Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden. Lewis Carroll golden silence opportunity My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe. Lewis Carroll air blood moving I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it. Lewis Carroll alice-adventures-in-wonderland atoms believe That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. Lewis Carroll party meat running Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. Lewis Carroll stupid goes-on dull It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here! Lewis Carroll tired tears wish I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide Lewis Carroll balls simple gone Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again Lewis Carroll horse wall kings Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up Lewis Carroll growing-up children way I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls. Lewis Carroll interest girl boys Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death. Lewis Carroll causes ill trying Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on. Lewis Carroll magnitude letters men The vast unfathomable sea Lewis Carroll unfathomable notion sea I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all. Lewis Carroll comeback opinion thinking All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! Lewis Carroll childhood sadness gay Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? Lewis Carroll dark dream life Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death Lewis Carroll judging law morning And how do you know that you're mad? Lewis Carroll alice-in-wonderland-alice mad cat I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Lewis Carroll theatre special believe 'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied. Lewis Carroll gnats names science
