She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box h...
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour...
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they ALWAYS purr. 'If they would only purr for yes and mew for no, or any rule of that sort,...
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. Wh...
Alice: How long is forever?
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Ever drifting down the stream
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.
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 other...
It is better to be feared than loved.
What I tell you three times is true.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date!
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Who cares for You're nothing but a pack of cards!
One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—I said it in German and Greek;
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
You couldn't have it if you DID want it.