Through the Looking-Glass

Book · 5 characters · 511 quotes · 1865

Quotes from Through the Looking-Glass

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"All mimsy were the borogoves."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Literature
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"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Courage
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"I can't believe that!"
Alice Imagination
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"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Philosophy
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"One can't believe impossible things."
Alice Imagination
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"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
The Cheshire Cat Humor
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"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean."
Humpty Dumpty Power
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"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Humpty Dumpty Philosophy
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"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
Humpty Dumpty Motivation
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"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
The Red Queen Wisdom
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"I am not old enough to understand that yet."
Alice
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"The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Alice
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"It's very kind of you to do that, whatever the motive."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Gratitude
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"Of all the unsatisfactory—I ever saw!"
Humpty Dumpty
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"What a wonderful invention an age is!"
Humpty Dumpty Time
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"Shame on you, three times shame!"
Humpty Dumpty
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"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do."
The Red Queen Perseverance
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"I do not like them here or there."
Alice
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"You're nothing but a sort of thing in his dream!"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"In fact, we make up our minds about it."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"I'm sure I didn't mean—if I had meant—"
Alice
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"The question is, which is to be master—that's all."
Humpty Dumpty Power
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"That's a great deal to make one word mean."
Alice
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"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean."
Humpty Dumpty Power
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"Speaking of which, my dear, I've been thinking."
Humpty Dumpty Wisdom
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"Who cares for you? You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
Alice Courage
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"I can't understand you. I talk English, and you talk nonsense."
Alice
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"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"One can't believe impossible things."
Alice Imagination
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"Perhaps it hasn't one"
Alice