Lewis Carroll Quotes, Mean Quotes, Names Quotes

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

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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!

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I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.

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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.

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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

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So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

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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?

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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

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I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

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'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

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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, it ain't. That's logic.

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And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

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You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

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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.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

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