His intimate friends called him `Candle-ends', / And his enemies `Toasted-cheese'. |
How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale! |
I am fond of children - except boys |
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see |
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then |
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. |
I know what you're thinking about, but it isn't so, nohow. Contrarywise, 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. |
I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak! |
I said it very loud and clear; / I went and shouted in his ear. |
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. |
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache. |
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. |
If you drink much from a bottle marked `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. |
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room |
In the midst of the word he was trying to say / In the midst of his laughter and glee, / He had softly and suddenly vanished away - / For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. |