Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Quotes

“No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.”

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899) p. 3.

“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.”

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 136.

“He tried also to encourage civilised warfare among earthworms, by supplying them with small pieces of pipe, with which they might fight if so disposed.”

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 11.

“I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi — the least omission may distort the whole picture.”

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. ix.