Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Quotes

“It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.”

“I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered.

“Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

“Suddenly the Professor started as if he had been electrified. "Why, I had nearly forgotten the most important part of the entertainment! The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a Pig I mean a Pig-Tale," he corrected himself. "It has Introductory Verses at the beginning, and at the end."

It can’t have Introductory Verses at the end, can it?" said Sylvie.

Wait till you hear it," said the Professor: "then you will see. I’m not sure it hasn’t some in the middle, as well.”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

“The character of a ‘lunatic’ is not, I believe, very difficult to acquire: but it is amazingly difficult to get rid of.”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

“When you’re older,” said the Professor, “you’ll know that you can’t put Mountains together again so easily!”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

“No, he hasn’t a head for Arithmetic—”
“Course I haven’t!” said Bruno. “Mine head’s for hair. I haven’t got a lot of heads!”
“—and he ca’n’t learn his Multiplication-table—”
“I like History ever so much better,” Bruno remarked. “Oo has to repeat that Muddlecome table—”
“Well, and you have to repeat—”
“No, oo hasn’t!” Bruno interrupted. “History repeats itself. The Professor said so!”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

“Did you ever ask yourself the question,” Lady Muriel began, à propos of nothing, “what is the chief advantage of being a Man instead of a Dog?”
“No, indeed,” I said: “but I think there are advantages on the Dog’s side of the question, as well.”
“No doubt,” she replied, with that pretty mock-gravity that became her so well: “but, on Man’s side, the chief advantage seems to me to consist in having pockets!”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded