Mock Turtle

Famous quotes containing the words mock turtle, mock and/or turtle:

    ““I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.”
    “What was that?” inquired Alice.
    “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
    “I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Isn’t it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “The second day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Two turtle doves,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 4–6)