Why is a raven like a writing desk? Lewis Carroll More Quotes by Lewis Carroll More Quotes From Lewis Carroll What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter. Lewis Carroll together long years Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone! Lewis Carroll hyenas hungry bones But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one? Lewis Carroll stopping said world But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person! Lewis Carroll use two people 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. Lewis Carroll going-out flames looks All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. Lewis Carroll afternoon skills hands when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural Lewis Carroll alice-adventures-in-wonderland ought natural "Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real." Lewis Carroll real dream thinking I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know. Lewis Carroll through-the-looking-glass eggs said 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. Lewis Carroll names laughing mean Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar. Lewis Carroll caterpillars important said How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. Lewis Carroll one-minute wonderland minutes One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. Lewis Carroll blades left two Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. Lewis Carroll right-direction nonsense wonderland Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. Lewis Carroll hail fairy-tale fairy He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen. Lewis Carroll queens white morning I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more Lewis Carroll extraordinary extraordinary-things seems Consider anything, only don’t cry! Lewis Carroll cry Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again! Lewis Carroll queens inspirational believe Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. Lewis Carroll wonderland imagination identity
