Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 January 1832
CityDaresbury, England
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.
By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.
Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
We haven't any and you're too young.
Why, what a temper you are in!
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!
Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!
But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.