50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol Quotes

“Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“The Bottoms” succeeded to “Hell Row”. Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“but he had seldom been used with patience or forbearance. He prided himself on his self-control. It had been whipped into him by the mockery of his fellows. Then they called him cynical and callous. He had acquired calmness of demeanour and under most circumstances an unruffled exterior, so that now he could not show his feelings.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood. I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“I kept his letters in a sandalwood box and covered them every day with the flowers I gathered in the garden.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“George”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“Dora.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol 2

“He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“the only painting worth anything was done with the heart.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“The poet replied: “I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“A schoolfellow of Vronsky’s and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“Chapter 44 — The Coming Election       The very greatness of Mr Melmotte’s popularity, the extent of the admiration which was accorded by the public at large to his commercial enterprise and financial sagacity, created a peculiar bitterness in the opposition that was organized against him at Westminster. As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the thickness of the winter’s ice will be in proportion to the number of the summer musquitoes, so was the keenness of the hostility displayed on this occasion in proportion to the warmth of the support which was manifested. As the great man was praised, so also was he abused. As he was a demi-god to some, so was he a fiend to others. And indeed there was hardly any other way in which it was possible to carry on the contest against him. From the moment in which Mr Melmotte had declared his purpose of standing for Westminster in the Conservative interest, an attempt was made to drive him down the throats of the electors by clamorous assertions of his unprecedented commercial greatness.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature. Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

“He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.”
― Lewis Carroll, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2