"Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" Quotes
Alice steps through a mirror into a fantastical world where she encounters peculiar characters and experiences a series of bizarre adventures that mirror the game of chess.
classics | 228 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings.
In my youth, father, I took to the law, and argued each case with my wife; and the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, has lasted the rest of my life.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. Of course you don't—till I tell you.
Well, in our country, said Alice, still panting a little, you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.
It's very good jam, said the Queen. Well, I don't want any today, at any rate. You couldn't have it if you did want it, the Queen said.
I see nobody on the road, said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes, the King remarked in a fretful tone. To be able to see Nobody!
You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly: but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
