"A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art."

"It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ……"

"Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife."

"The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny."

"Tenniel is the man."

"Mr. Tenniel is the only artist, who has drawn for me, who resolutely refused to use a model, and declared he has no m…"

"Tenniel raised the political cartoon to a new level of dignity and importance."

"Tenniel, who had started as a child prodigy, nearly ended as one. When a boy, fencing with his father, he lost the si…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"