Lewis Carroll Quotes

• It’s as large as life and twice as natural!

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• 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!’

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• 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!’

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• 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.

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• 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 !

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• ‘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!’

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

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• He would answer to ‘Hi!’or to any loud cry, Such as ‘Fry me!’or ‘Fritter-my-wig!’

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• What I tell you three times is true.

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• ‘Fan her head!’ the Red Queen anxiously interrupted. ‘She’ll be feverish after so much thinking.’

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• Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

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• Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Into a left-hand shoe.

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• I’ll tell thee everything I can: There’s little to relate. I saw an aged, aged man, A-sitting on a gate.

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• ‘It’s long,’ said the Knight, ‘but it’s very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it—either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else—’ ‘Or else what ?’ said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. ‘Or else it doesn’t, you know.’

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• I must have two you know—to come and go. One to come, and one to go.

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• The Lion looked at Alice wearily. ‘Are you animal—or vegetable—or mineral?’ he said, yawning at every other word.

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• He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

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• The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown; Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.

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• ‘I can repeat poetry as well as other folk if it comes to that—’ ‘Oh, it needn’t come to that !’ Alice hastily said.

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• ‘Slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy’… You see it’s like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.

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Birth:	27th January, 1832
Death:	14th January, 1898
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Anglican, Artist, Author, Mathematician, Photographer

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