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
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room
He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
Speak roughly to your little boy, / And beat him when he sneezes: / He only does it to annoy, / Because he knows it teases.
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see
Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green.
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!