| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
|
| | | NUMBER: | 950 |
| AUTHOR: | Lewis Carroll (1832–98) |
| QUOTATION: | “There’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn’t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.”
“Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice.
“That would be all the better, wouldn’t it?” the Queen said. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 5.—Logical Nonsense: The Works of Lewis Carroll, ed. Philip C. Blackburn and Lionel White, p. 195 (1934). First published in 1872. |
| SUBJECTS: | Justice |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
|
|
