889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!

Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot / Into a left-hand shoe.