{"author":"Lewis Carroll","author_id":"Lewis+Carroll","total_quotes":130,"quotes":[{"text":"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.'I don't much care where -' said Alice.'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.'- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["choices","life-decisions"],"id":2017,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["speech","truth","writing"],"id":2343,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. 'What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. 'They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in reply, 'for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["dream","humor","philisophical"],"id":2775,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"For instance, take the two words 'fuming' and 'furious.' Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards ' fuming,' you will say 'fuming-furious;' if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards 'furious,' you will say 'furious-fuming;' but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say 'frumious.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["language"],"id":12837,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Curiouser and curiouser.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["children-s-lit","favorites","humor"],"id":19617,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!' And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","english","language","mocking","speech","wonderland"],"id":22256,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","crying","drowning","ironic-death","irony","tears","water","wonderland"],"id":31512,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["humor"],"id":40848,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, '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.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","carroll","logic"],"id":54526,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"What do you call yourself?' the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!'I wish I knew!' thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, 'Nothing, just now.'Think again,' it said: 'that won't do.'Alice thought, but nothing came of it. 'Please, would you tell me what you call yourself?' she said timidly, 'I think that might help a little.'I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on,' the Fawn said. 'I can't remember here.'So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. 'I'm a Fawn!' it cried out in a voice of delight. 'And dear me, you're a human child!' A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed.","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","danger","deer","fawn","fear","innocence","instinct","purity","survival","wonderland"],"id":55065,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":130,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}