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.
