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
What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts
But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?
One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
I said it very loud and clear; / I went and shouted in his ear.
I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!
O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to
Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?
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 think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.