Quote

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

Lewis Carroll

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
Deacon
Diarist
Logician
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Photographer
Poet
Writer
Daresbury
Cheshire
Charles Dodgson
Lewis Caroll
Lewis Carroll Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Rev. C. L. Dodgson
Charles L. Dodgson
Sky
Twinkle
Sweet
Hares
Wonder
Twinkling
Littles
Wonderland
Little
Bats
Like
Aviation
World
Tea
Tray
Flight
Trays

More quotes by Lewis Carroll

Image
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
Lewis Carroll
Image
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
Lewis Carroll
Image
“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.
Lewis Carroll
Image
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. You might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!
Lewis Carroll
Image
Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound Peace on earth, good-will to men!
Lewis Carroll
Image
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.
Lewis Carroll
Image
I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!
Lewis Carroll
Image
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
Lewis Carroll
Image
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
Lewis Carroll
Image
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
Lewis Carroll
Image
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll
Image
She's stark raving mad!
Lewis Carroll
Image
One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
Lewis Carroll
Image
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Lewis Carroll
Image
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
Image
As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.
Lewis Carroll
Image
Well, it's no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real.
Lewis Carroll
Image
In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by
Lewis Carroll