Lewis Carroll Quotes


There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.


Citations

Carroll, Lewis. Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co., 1869, p. 43.

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Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
  • Born: January 27, 1832
  • Died: January 14, 1898
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon.