Lewis Carroll: Quotes

• Education

  “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied, “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Justice

  “ There's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.”
   “Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice.
   “That would be all the better, wouldn't it?”Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass

• Language

   “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
   “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
   “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass

• Memory

   “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: Through the Looking-Glass

• Perception

   “I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.
   “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone.“To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!”Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass

• Privacy

  “If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Progress

  “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen.“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass

• Purpose

   “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
   “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the [Cheshire] Cat.
   “I don't much care where—” said Alice.
   “Then it doesn't matter which way you go,” said the Cat.Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Reason and Logic

  “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass

• Speech and Speakers

   “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
   “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.”
   “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter.“Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat' is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see'!”Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Style

  Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland