Lewis Carroll Quotes

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek, He looked again and found it was The Middle of Next Week. ‘The one thing I regret,’ he said, ‘Is that it cannot speak!’

He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. ‘At length I realize,’ he said ‘The bitterness of life!’

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West !

‘What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones and Meridian lines?’ So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply, ‘They are merely conventional signs!’

His intimate friends called him ‘Candle-ends’, And his enemies, ‘Toasted-cheese’.