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
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies...
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.