Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1811
AUTHOR:
Lewis Carroll (1832–98)
QUOTATION:
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.”
ATTRIBUTION:
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” stanza 11, Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 4.—Logical Nonsense: The Works of Lewis Carroll, ed. Philip C. Blackburn and Lionel White, p. 188 (1934). First published in 1871.
