Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

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Eccentric English author best known for writing the Alice in Wonderland books. He was well-known for his inventiveness and spawned a genre known as "literary nonsense."
  • When was
    Lewis Carroll born?

    Lewis Carroll was born on Friday, January 27, 1832

  • Where was
    Lewis Carroll born?

    Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury, England

  • How old is
    Lewis Carroll?

    Lewis Carroll is 192


Best Quotes

  • Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is go...
  • There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar—if o...
  • My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important point, you k...
  • It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wi...
  • 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 l...
  • And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
  • And so you have found out that secret—one of the deep secrets of Life—that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?
  • 'Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched height to be.' 'It i...
  • 'Who are you,' said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I—I hardly k...
  • 'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Tur...
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