Famous quotes containing the words lewis carroll, lewis, carroll and/or shelf:
““He is a charming boy!” my Lady exclaimed. “Even his snores are more musical than those of other boys!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)
“Such epithets, like pepper,
Give zest to what you write;
And, if you strew them sparely,
They whet the appetite:
But if you lay them on too thick,
You spoil the matter quite!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)