Through the Looking-Glass

"One of the two of us must go back, for I can't go on without him."

"Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through."

"I never thought of that before, but you're right."

"I'm afraid I can't explain myself, because I'm not myself."

"What a curious feeling it is to grow small again!"

"You're nothing but a pack of cards!"

"That would never do!"

"I haven't the least idea what you mean by that."

"That's rather a hard riddle."

"It's a looking-glass world, and everything's topsy-turvy."

"If that there King was to wake, you'd go out—bang!—just like a candle!"

"I don't think they play at all fairly, and they all quarrel so dreadfully!"

"You can't possibly win if you don't even try."

"A queen ought to know better than to sleep during the game."

"Off with their heads!"

"It's very rude of him to sit there while we're all talking."

"I wonder what the moral of that is."

"I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin."

"Speak when you're spoken to!"

"I'm sure I'm not Ada, for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all."

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

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

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't."

"They gave it me for an un-birthday present."

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

"I'm sure I don't know my own mind sometimes."

"I like the Carpenter best—he seems a more respectable sort of person."

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