"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in……" — Lewis Carroll
"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"
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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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More Dutch Quotes
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one of 108 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
— Julie Burchill
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are…
— George Canning
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through…
— Amy Chua
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and…
— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak…
— Peter Kreeft
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
— Mark Twain
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I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish.…
— Janeane Garofalo
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My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a…
— Tyler Florence
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There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
— Michael Caine
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In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings…
— Richard Lindzen
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