Lewis Carroll Quotes


What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.


Citations

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Macmillan and Co., 1872, p. 195.

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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.