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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And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

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PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

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Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

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

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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

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We're all mad here.

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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

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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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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

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"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."

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'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

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But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.

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"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

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