Lewis Carroll Quotes


While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.


Citations

Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno. Macmillan and Co., 1889, p. xvi.

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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.