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20 of the best book quotes from Through the Looking Glass. 01. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know.” Lewis Carroll. author. Through the Looking Glass. book. Alice. character. mystery. ᐧ. magic. ᐧ. perspective. ᐧ. uncertainty. concepts. 02. “Life, what is it but a dream?”
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- Lewis Carroll
- 1871
- “In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”
- “Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!” ― Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass.
- “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
- “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
- Lewis Carroll
- 1885
- “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass.
- “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be.
- “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
- “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
- Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
- Chapter 2: The Garden of Live Flowers
- Chapter 3: Looking-Glass Insects
- Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- Chapter 5: Wool and Water
- Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
- Chapter 7: The Lion and The Unicorn
- Chapter 8: "It's My Own Invention"
- Chapter 9: Queen Alice
- Chapter 12: Which Dreamed It?
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: — it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the l...
"O Tiger-lily," said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, "I wish you could talk!" "We cantalk," said the Tiger-lily: "when there's anybody worth talking to."
"What sort of insects do you rejoice in, where you come from?" the Gnat inquired. "I don't rejoice in insects at all," Alice explained, "because I'm rather afraid of them—at least the large kinds....
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "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'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the [White] Queen said. "Twopence a week, and jam every other day." Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me—and I don't care...
"My name is Alice, but — " "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty...
"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! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as Ican do to see...
Of all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through The Looking-Glass, this was the one that she always remembered most clearly. Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back ag...
"Speak when you're spoken to!" The Queen sharply interrupted her. "But if everybody obeyed that rule," said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, "and if you only spoke when you were s...
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr. "If they would only purr for "yes" and mew for "no," or any rule of tha...
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