Quotes About Expression

Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.

They've a temper, some of them--particularly verbs: they're the proudest--adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs--however I can manage the whole lot of them!

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,' I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

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.

Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.

conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?

you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.

Habla en francés cuando no te acuerdes de alguna palabra en castellano... acuérdate bien de andar con las puntas de los pies hacia afuera... y no te olvides nunca de quien eres!

Cuando yo uso una palabra -insistió Humpty Dumpty con un tono de voz más bien desdeñoso- quiere decir lo que yo quiero que diga…, ni más ni menos.

and what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?

La mejor forma de explicar una cosa es hacerla.

I'm afraid I can't explain myself. Because I am not myself, you see?

Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For

What's the French for fiddle-de-dee?

Habla en francés siempre que no encuentres la palabra en inglés para nombrar alguna cosa, saca ligeramente los dedos de los pies al andar y ¡Recuerda siempre quién eres!.

I didn't know that cats could grin.' 'They all can,' said the Duchess, 'and most of 'em do.

Quando eu uso uma palavra', disse Humpty Dumpty num tom bastante desdenhoso, 'ela significa exatamente o que eu quero que signifique: nem mais nem menos

the only painting worth anything was done with the heart.