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• Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
  If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that....
• You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.
  -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Gla...
• You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!
  "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it....
• 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!" -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Gla...
• Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...