"Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they……" — Lewis Carroll
"Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true."
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310 Quotes by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll has 310 quotes on this site.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for…
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're…
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't,…
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it…
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling…
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments…
— William James
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and…
— John Milton
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's…
— John Milton
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
— William Wordsworth
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
— John Aubrey
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
— Paula Poundstone
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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