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• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. Lewis Carroll
• That's the effect of living backwards: it always makes one a little giddy at first, but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• I'm very brave, generally," he went on in a low voice
  only today I happen to have a headache." -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Can you do Addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?
  "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted....
• 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...
• Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.
  -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Gla...