Lewis Carroll Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye

• Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Dream, Children

  Lewis Carroll (2000). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, p.118, Penguin

• Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye, Knights, Tears

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

• Child of the pure unclouded brow
  And dreaming eyes of wonder!
  Though time be fleet, and I and thou
  Are half a life asunder,
  Thy loving smile will surely hail
  The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

• Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

  Lewis Carroll

  Moving, Eye, Sky

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1682, Delphi Classics

• "She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Queens, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing

• "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

  Lewis Carroll

  Kings, Real, Distance

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.53, PDFreeBooks.org

• So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye, Reality, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.84, Jeff Koo

• Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friday, Morning, Children

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