Humpty Dumpty

"You're not in our school at all."

"When you come to any passage you don't understand, just thought it as hard as you can till you do understand it"

"She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny something"

"The question is which is to be master—that's all"

"It's too late to correct it now"

"That's only another way of saying the same thing, you know"

"You've completely lost your way"

"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."

"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."

"Nows are very confusing things."

"If you take one from three, you have two."

"Words are what I choose them to mean."

"That's just what I complain of! You ought to have meant! What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning."

"I'll show you how to laugh."

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean."

"Unimaginative! I hate that word!"

"That's glory for you!"

"I'm seventeen, one way and another."

"The question is which is to be master—that's all"

"I can explain all the poems that ever were invented—and a good many that haven't been invented just yet"

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

"I am exactly ninety inches round"

"No, no, you're not listening properly"

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean"

"Something's wrong with you, I'm afraid. But what is it?"

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"It's very provoking to be called names."

"Before I had my accident, I was something like an egg."

"You're tired of looking at me, I suppose."

"You might as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"