If doubtful whether to end with “yours faithfully”, or “yours truly”, or “your most truly”, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach “yours affectionately”), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!
LEWIS CARROLL, Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing
- In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
- Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?
LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking Glass
When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking Glass
- O bitter is it to abide
- In weariness alway:
- At dawn to sigh for eventide,
- At eventide for day.
- Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone:
- The brightness of thy day is gone:
- What need to lag and linger on
- Till life be cold and gray?
LEWIS CARROLL, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
LEWIS CARROLL, attributed, Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: The Life and Times of Alice and Her Creator
- Bowed to the earth with bitter woe
- Or laughing at some raree-show
- We flutter idly to and fro.
LEWIS CARROLL, Sylvie and Bruno
Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.
LEWIS CARROLL, Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing
We're all mad here.
LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
God has given to Man an absolute right to take the lives of other animals, for any reasonable cause, such as the supply of food; but He has not given to Man the right to inflict pain, unless where necessary.
LEWIS CARROLL, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!
LEWIS CARROLL, Sylvie and Bruno
- Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack,
- Ye little men of little souls!
- And bid them huddle at your back -
- Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!
- Fill all the air with hungry wails -
- "Reward us, ere we think or write!
- Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails
- To sate the swinish appetite!"
LEWIS CARROLL, "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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.
LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-glass
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