889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    Take my friends and my home – as an outcast I’ll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

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  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    I wish creatures wouldn’t be so easily offended!“, “You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

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  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    There are certain things – as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three – That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.

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  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

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  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.

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    There’s no use in comparing one’s feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

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