Mock Turtle

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

““And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
“Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so on.”
“What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice.
“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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