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Very Quotes by Lewis Carroll
- She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
- The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth,…
- I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss…
- "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't…
- "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it,"…
- 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…
- Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back…
- A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters,…
- Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather…
- Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices…
- I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)
- You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you…
- The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And…
- It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
- Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this…
- The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called…
- For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
- I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them;…
- I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
- It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I…
- 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 know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's…
- 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…
- I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
- When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all.…
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