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
Lewis Carroll quotes about
''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.
Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.