Through the Looking-Glass

Book · 5 characters · 511 quotes · 1865

Quotes from Through the Looking-Glass

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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 Perseverance
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"I wish I could manage to be glad!"
Alice Happiness
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"The world spins fast enough without all this whizzing about"
Alice Peace
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"You've no right to grow here"
The Red Queen
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"What's the use of their having names if they won't answer to them?"
Alice
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"We're all in the dumps"
Humpty Dumpty
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"There's not the smallest atom of meaning in it"
Humpty Dumpty
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"I can repeat poetry as well as other folk"
Humpty Dumpty Art
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"You seem very clever at explaining words"
Alice Knowledge
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"It's as bairy as a badger"
Humpty Dumpty
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"I feel a bit puzzled"
Alice
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"Queen Alice! That will be grand!"
Alice
A
"I'm in prison now, am I?"
Alice Freedom
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"Off with their heads!"
The Red Queen Power
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"I see nobody on the road"
Alice
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"Glory doesn't mean a nice knock-down argument"
Humpty Dumpty Truth
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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
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"One can't believe impossible things"
Alice
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"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad"
The Cheshire Cat Humor
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"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get"
The Red Queen
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"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
Alice Truth
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"All the ways about here belong to the Red Queen"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Power
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"I never said it was a nice day"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Truth
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"Now, here's a puzzle"
Humpty Dumpty Wisdom
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"I like her much better now"
The Red Queen Change
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"There's no name written on it"
Alice
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"I'm seventeen and a half exactly"
Alice
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"It's a poor sort of present that goes in at one ear and comes out at the other"
Alice Wisdom