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
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Only the insane equate pain with success." "The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die." _Cheshire Cat
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Curiouser and curiouser.
People who don't think shouldn't talk.
All that matters is what we do for each other.
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.