Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the more.. more..

“ Lewis Carroll:I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life? #Children#Children

“ Lewis Carroll: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! #Books - Reading #Books - Reading

“ Lewis Carroll:They did things very simply in those days: if you had a lot of money, you just dug a hole under the hedge, and popped it in: then you said you had "put it in the bank" #Neighbors#Neighbors

“ Lewis Carroll:It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others. #Life and Living#Life and Living

“ Lewis Carroll:You may charge me with murder — or want of sense - (we are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence was never among my crimes! I said it in Hebrew — I said it in Dutch — I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! #Competition#Competition

“ Lewis Carroll:As to dancing, my dear, I never dance, unless I am allowed to do it in my own peculiar way. There is no use trying to describe it: it has to be seen to be believed. The last house I tried it in, the floor broke through. But then it was a poor sort of floor--the beams were only six inches thick, hardly worth calling beams at all: stone arches are much more sensible, when any dancing, of my peculiar kind, is to be done. Did you ever see the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, at the Zoological Gardens, trying to dance a minuet together? It is a touching sight. Give any message from me to Amy that you think will be most likely to surprise her. #Acting and Actors#Acting and Actors

“ Lewis Carroll: 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! #Modern and Modernism #Modern and Modernism

“ Lewis Carroll:Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith — the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen! "Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!" #Age and Aging#Age and Aging

“ Lewis Carroll: Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. #Juries#Juries

“ Lewis Carroll: What I tell you three times is true. #Truth#Truth

“ Lewis Carroll:Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. #Common Sense#Common Sense

“ Lewis Carroll:'Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave captain to thank' (So the crew would protest) 'that he's bought us the best — A perfect and absolute blank!' #Optimism#Optimism

“ Lewis Carroll:Of course you know what a Snark is? If you do, please tell me: for I haven't an idea what it is like. #Ideas#Ideas

“ Lewis Carroll:Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. #Morality #Morality

“ Lewis Carroll:IF — and the thing is wildly possible — the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in Fit the Second) "Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes." In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History — I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened... #Obesity#Obesity

“ Lewis Carroll: The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today. #Promises#Promises

“ Lewis Carroll: And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors. #Nature#Nature

“ Lewis Carroll:Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past! #Life and Living#Life and Living

“ Lewis Carroll:Some children have a most disagreeable way of getting grown-up: I hope you won't do anything of that sort before we meet again. #Children#Children

“ Lewis Carroll: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat. #Goals#Goals

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