It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
— Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon who spent most of his life as a scholar and teacher at Christ Church, Oxford.
His Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871) are among the most important works of Victorian literature. He loved wordplay, logic and puzzles, invented the word ladder game he called "Doublets", and wrote nonsense poems such as Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Some of Wonderland's upside-down reasoning echoes his own work on mathematical logic.
His Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871) are among the most important works of Victorian literature. He loved wordplay, logic and puzzles, invented the word ladder game he called "Doublets", and wrote nonsense poems such as Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Some of Wonderland's upside-down reasoning echoes his own work on mathematical logic.
Most quoted works
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass 35
- Alice in Wonderland 21
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 5
- Sylvie and Bruno 3
- Through the Looking Glass 3
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 3
Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." than nothing." opinion," said Alice.
— Alice in Wonderland
Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!
— Through the Looking Glass
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
— The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
One! two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.
— Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up."
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don’t know. Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
— Alice in Wonderland
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;
— Alice in Wonderland
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.
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass