"They've a temper, some of them - particularly……" — Lewis Carroll
"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs..."
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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 Adjectives Quotes
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this…
— Alison Brie
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,…
— Maya Angelou
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
— Hal Borland
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
— Guy de Maupassant
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
— Mark Twain
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat…
— Anton Chekhov
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