Lewis Carroll

Born January 27, 1832 · Died January 14, 1898

From Daresbury, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Wikipedia

Lewis Carroll is well known throughout the world as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Behind the famous pseudonym was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Oxford University with remarkably diverse talents.

Quotes

“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?”
Sylvie and Bruno, Chapter 4
“Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule!”
Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing
“I wasn’t asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. “When I shuts mine eyes, it’s to show that I’m awake!””
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Chapter 1
“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
Letters, p.10
“He thought he saw an Elephant, / That practised on a fife: / He looked again, and found it was / A letter from his wife. / ‘At length I realise,’ he said, / ‘The bitterness of Life!’”
Sylvie and Bruno, Chapter 5