They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs. Lewis Carroll More Quotes by Lewis Carroll More Quotes From Lewis Carroll It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied. Lewis Carroll jelly dining house Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning! Lewis Carroll character men death There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am. Lewis Carroll mad land needs have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are. Lewis Carroll mad gone people She who saves a single soul, saves the universe. Lewis Carroll universe soul The Good and Great must ever shun Lewis Carroll pun reckless abandoned Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. Lewis Carroll wonderland morning thinking If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful! Lewis Carroll writing book years Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation? Lewis Carroll tired reading book We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near. Lewis Carroll bedtime aging children And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland Lewis Carroll wonderland voice stories Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know. Lewis Carroll knights tears eye I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like! Lewis Carroll choices wish happiness So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies. Lewis Carroll trouble would-be mind If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think. Lewis Carroll pigs children thinking It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences. Lewis Carroll late said too-late Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. Lewis Carroll wonderland said tea You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy. Lewis Carroll jokes unhappy ifs Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life! Lewis Carroll wonderland saws cat I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears ! Lewis Carroll tears wish trying
