Famous quotes containing the words lewis carroll, lewis, carroll and/or shelf:
““The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
“Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.”
—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)