Lewis Carroll Quotes - Page 9

• Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

  Lewis Carroll

  Scene, Should, Dare

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Looks, Speak, Look Up

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

  Lewis Carroll

  Broken Heart, Kings, Queens

  Lewis Carroll "Alicia en el país de las maravillas", W. W. Norton & Company

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• ¿Un nombre debe significar algo?" preguntó Alicia dubitativa. Claro que sí -dijo Humpty Dumpty con una carcajada-. Mi nombre significa la forma que tengo, y es una forma muy bonita. Con un nombre como el tuyo, podrías tener casi cualquier forma.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Names, Laughing

  A través del espejo' (1872) cap. 6

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• Entonces deberías decir lo que quieres decir", continuó la Liebre de Marzo. "Lo hago", se apresuró a contestar Alicia; "al menos... al menos digo lo que digo... eso es lo mismo, ¿sabes?". "¡No es lo mismo!" dijo el Sombrerero. "¡Podrías decir que "veo lo que como" es lo mismo que "como lo que veo"!

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Might, March

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

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• Los epítetos, como la pimienta, dan sabor a lo que escribes; y si los esparces con moderación, abren el apetito: Pero si los extiendes demasiado, arruinas el asunto.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

  Lewis Carroll

  Silence, Mouths, Lasts

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.26, Jeff Koo

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• Brillaba el día, y los pajarillos giraban y giraban en la brisa; los borogovos eran mimosos, y los ratones mimosos se agarraban.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Intuition, Acting

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• I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Special, Theatre

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Sylvie and Bruno”, p.233, Lewis Carroll

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• To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Glasses, Hands

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, p.100, Oberon Books

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• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Nature, Sleep

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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• This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!

  Lewis Carroll

  Party, Tea, Trying

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.69, Penguin

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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Shining, Tails

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• The Good and Great must ever shun
  That reckless and abandoned one
  Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

  Lewis Carroll

  Reckless, Abandoned, Pun

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Flower, Book

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.208, Race Point Pub

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• We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Bedtime, Aging

  Lewis Carroll (2010). "Alicia en el país de las maravillas", p.170, Dynamite

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• I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Believe, Tests

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• ...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

  Lewis Carroll

  Domestic Violence, Violence, Serpent

  Lewis Carroll "Alicia en el país de las maravillas", W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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, dear, We can begin to feed!

  Lewis Carroll

  Oysters, Needs, Bread

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.29, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.82, Bibliolis Books

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• He comprobado que una carta que se tarda una hora en escribir sólo se tarda tres minutos en leer.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Trials, Letters

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.11, Springer

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• And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Turtles, Lessons, Nine

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 9

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• Siempre es la hora del té.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Tea Time

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “Alice in Wonderland-English Classics”, p.60, Star Publications

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• En un país de las maravillas yacen, soñando mientras pasan los días

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Lying, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.208, Bibliolis Books

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