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
I am fond of children - except boys.
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!
Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
One can't believe impossible things.
'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.
'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much...
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.
It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...