John Tenniel Quotes

Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There . Wikipedia  

✵ 28. February 1820 – 25. February 1914
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Famous John Tenniel Quotes

“It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since.”

Declining to illustrate a later book by Lewis Carroll, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146

“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”

Refusing to illustrate a proposed chapter in Through the Looking-Glass, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146

“Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.”

Urging Carroll to shorten Through the Looking-Glass; p. 14
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)

“The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.”

Of Carroll's essay Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing; p. 18
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)

“How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.”

Of his knighthood; p. 18
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)

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