Dodgson Quotes

The Reverend C. L. Dodgson had no life. He passed through the world so lightly that he left no print. He melted so passively into Oxford that he is invisible. (Virginia Woolf)
Dodgson was overcome by the beauty of Cologne Cathedral. I found him leaning against the rails of the Choir and sobbing like a child. When the verger came to show us over the chapels behind the Choir, he got out of the way, he said that he could not bear the harsh voice of the man in the presence of so much beauty. View quote
Henry Liddon
Dodgson of course was a meticulous traveler. He packed each article separately, well wrapped in paper to twice its bulk. View quote
Florence Becker Lennon
The Dodgson family worshipped the God of Love, who showed his stern face only in the presence of evil. View quote
Florence Becker Lennon
Charles Dodgson, born a romantic and a rationalist, would have fitted more easily into the world of Voltaire and Goethe than into the one that received him. View quote
Florence Becker Lennon
How did it happen that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, thirty years of age, lecturer on geometry at Christ Church, Oxford, hitherto remarkable chiefly for his precision, on a single July afternoon, while rowing up the Isis with a brother don and three little girls, parthenogenetically gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time? View quote
Florence Becker Lennon