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
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.
It frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"" the Mock Turtle replied, ""and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!
''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
One, two! One, two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!/ He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.
The horror of that moment,"" the King went on, ""I shall never, never forget!"" ""You will, though,"" the Queen said, ""if you don't make a memorandum of it
He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.
He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.