One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another. Lewis Carroll More Quotes by Lewis Carroll More Quotes From Lewis Carroll Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled. Lewis Carroll snakes men son As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood. Lewis Carroll matter men blood Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. Lewis Carroll fool poet school Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. Lewis Carroll dare scene should It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know. Lewis Carroll through-the-looking-glass synchronicity jam And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Lewis Carroll bowls my-heart heart We haven't any and you're too young. Lewis Carroll alice-in-wonderland-tea alice-in-wonderland-book young Why, what a temper you are in! Lewis Carroll temper There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, Lewis Carroll income hate sea 'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to." Lewis Carroll lilies wish talking Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta. Lewis Carroll rude mind tea But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, Lewis Carroll mets nephew danger "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain." Lewis Carroll queens dog science Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank. Lewis Carroll sea lakes home Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen! Lewis Carroll regret night memories If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm! Lewis Carroll dozen letters friendly It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best. Lewis Carroll queens fun life Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time. Lewis Carroll look-up speak looks If you don't know where you're going any road will do Lewis Carroll goals-dreams baseball travel "She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!" Lewis Carroll queens eye time
