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
You may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap
Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale
It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room
I know what you're thinking about, but it isn't so, nohow. Contrarywise, 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.
They lived at the bottom of a well - . . . They lived on treacle.
The other Messenger's called Hatta. I must have two, you know - to come and go. One to come, and one to go.
Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.