Lewis Carroll Through Quotations

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

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

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

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.