Quotes from Lewis Carroll

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

meaning in it, said the King, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict.

Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?

Well!" thought Alice to herself. "After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.)

Two days wrong! sighed the Hatter. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works! he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. It was the best butter, the March Hare meekly replied.

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.

Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. The prettiest are always further! she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the rattling teacups would

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.