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
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.
Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
What I tell you three times is true.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.