Love Quote by Lewis Carroll

Carroll’s sing-song line wears a Valentine mask while smuggling in a wink. The phrase “makes the world go round” is a ready-made moral, the kind of genteel certainty Victorians loved to print on keepsakes and needlepoint. Carroll repeats “’tis love” twice, not to deepen the sentiment but to heighten its theatricality: it sounds like someone performing sincerity because sincerity is what the room expects. In his work, that kind of over-bright refrain often signals a trapdoor into nonsense, where language keeps its rhythm even as meaning goes wobbly.

The intent isn’t simply to praise love; it’s to test how a cliché functions when you strip it down to pure cadence. The apostrophe in “’tis” does cultural work: it dresses the line in faux-old-fashioned charm, implying tradition and inevitability, as if love were a natural law. But Carroll’s broader project is to show how “natural laws” in conversation are frequently just well-rehearsed verbal habits. The world “goes round” because we agree to say it does.

Subtext: love here isn’t only romance; it’s the social lubricant that keeps a rigid society from grinding audibly. People invoke “love” to smooth over contradictions, to make messy motives sound pure, to keep the gears turning. Carroll lets the sweetness stand, then undercuts it by making it feel slightly too perfect - a jingle that reveals the machinery of sentimentality. The result is a line that can be quoted earnestly, but also enjoyed as a quiet parody of earnest quoting itself.