Lewis Carroll Quotes


You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.


Citations

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan and Co., 1866, p. 130.

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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.