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About The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

His facility at word play, logic, and fantasy has delighted audiences ranging from children to the literary elite, and beyond this his work has become embedded deeply in modern culture, directly influencing many artists.

There are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world including North America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a 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.'

'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.'

What I tell you three times is true.

How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. 'I do, ' Alice hastily replied; 'at least I mean what I say, that's the same thing, you know.' 'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see!'

Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

'Tut, tut, child,' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.'

'I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,' said cunning old Fury; 'I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'

'In my youth,' said his father, 'I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.'

'There's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.' 'Suppose he never commits the crime?' said Alice. 'That would be all the better, wouldn't it?' the Queen said.

'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterwards.'

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

'It's very good jam,' said the Queen. 'Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate.' 'You couldn't have it if you did want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day.' 'It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day, 'Alice objected. 'No it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know.' 'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing.'

In Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire Cat for directions: 'Would you tell me, please, which is the way to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, ' says the cat. 'I don't much care where...' says Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' says the cat.

Christmas Greeting from a Fairy to a Child Lady, dear, if Fairies may For a moment lay aside Cunning tricks and elfish play, 'Tis at happy Christmas-tide. We have heard the children say— Gentle children' whom we love— Long ago on Christmas Day, Came a message from above. Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again— Echo still the joyful sound 'Peace on earth, good-will to men!' Yet the hearts must childlike be Where such heavenly guests abide; Unto children, in their glee, All the year is Christmas-tide! Thus, forgetting tricks and play For a moment, Lady dear, We would wish you, if we may, Merry Christmas, glad New Year!

'Alice laughed: 'There's no use trying,' she said; 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Be what you would seem to be — or, if you'd like it put more simply — Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

The different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

'Can you do addition?' the White Queen asked. 'What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?' 'I don't know,' said Alice. 'I lost count.'

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'

It was all very well to say, 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked 'Poison' or not.' For she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long, and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds. And she had never forgotten that if you drink too much from a bottle marked 'Poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The Duchess! the Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice.

A cat may look at a king, said Alice.

It's as large as life and twice as natural.

Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

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.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

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