How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. Lewis Carroll More Quotes by Lewis Carroll More Quotes From Lewis Carroll You can't be that good; you work for me. Lewis Carroll leadership "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light." Lewis Carroll distance real kings Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder. Lewis Carroll eye dream children The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour. Lewis Carroll photography writing art 'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation. Lewis Carroll queens children thinking As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant. Lewis Carroll misunderstood gentleman opposites Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? Lewis Carroll knives division math Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. Lewis Carroll riddle fishes dishes Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance? Lewis Carroll turtles waiting lobster In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both. Lewis Carroll gentleman giving rooms Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle? Lewis Carroll circles ignorance may "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day." "It must come sometimes to "jam to-day,""Alice objected. "No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know." "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing." Lewis Carroll queens yesterday math A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful. Lewis Carroll respect hands people A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch! Lewis Carroll time trying might Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. Lewis Carroll alice-adventures-in-wonderland dodo-bird winning PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points. Lewis Carroll taken character lying But I was thinking of a way Lewis Carroll goes-on littles thinking "In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." Lewis Carroll law talking father Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite! Lewis Carroll zest writing giving When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity! Lewis Carroll irritated stupidity self
