Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
949
AUTHOR:
Lewis Carroll (1832–98)
QUOTATION:
“No, no!” said the Queen. Sentence first—verdict afterwards.
ATTRIBUTION:
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Alice in Wonderland, chapter 12.—Logical Nonsense: The Works of Lewis Carroll, ed. Philip C. Blackburn and Lionel White, p. 177 (1934). First published in 1865.
