"Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you……" — Lewis Carroll
"Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!"
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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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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times,…
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