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
'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...
Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
With a sort of mental squint.
The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
"It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day." "It must come sometimes to "jam to-day,""Alice objected. "No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know." "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing."