Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), pseudonym of C. L. Dodgson, was the author of "Alice in Wonderland," with its sequel, "Through the Looking-Glass."

Wisdom & Quotes

• 'Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?'

- Through the Looking-glass

• 'If everybody minded their own business,' said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• 'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,

'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• 'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
- Jabberwocky in Through the Looking-glass

• 'Twas brilling, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
- Jabberwocky in Through the Looking-glass

• 'The time has come,' the Walrus said,

'To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings.'
- Jabberwocky in Through the Looking-glass

• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Louisa May Alcott