Emotions and Feelings

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,

Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.

‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing.

Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me

Veni, vidi, vici.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices.

If I should meet thee

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;

A mind at peace with all below,

I’ll publish, right or wrong:

Society is now one polished horde,

The English winter—ending in July,

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,

… That all-softening, overpowering knell,

In her first passion woman loves her lover,