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
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.
Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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.
Life, what is it but a dream?
have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
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.