Through the Looking-Glass

Book · 5 characters · 511 quotes · 1865

Quotes from Through the Looking-Glass

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"The question is which is to be master."
Humpty Dumpty
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"I'm glad they don't give birthday cakes here."
Alice Humor
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"Off with her head!"
The Red Queen Power
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"I can't help thinking there's been some mistake here."
Alice
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"How neatly she tied my bonnet on!"
Alice Gratitude
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"Speak when you're spoken to!"
The Red Queen
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"Do you know, I've had such a quantity of poetry repeated to me today."
Alice Literature
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"I can't see anybody with anybody, when the somebody isn't there."
Alice
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"You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir!"
Alice Education
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"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."
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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"I am fain to go with thee, Humpty Dumpty said at last."
Humpty Dumpty
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"I wonder what the Pigeon will think of that!"
Alice
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"One can't believe impossible things."
Alice Philosophy
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"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
Alice Change
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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 Life
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"I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"
Alice Relationships
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"It's rather fun to fancy oneself a Queen."
Alice Imagination
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"One can't help growing older."
Alice Time
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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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"I've often seen a cat without a grin, but never a grin without a cat."
Alice
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"I've a right to think for myself."
Alice Freedom
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"You're not strong enough to take the Queen."
Humpty Dumpty Strength
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"I'm afraid I haven't got much to say."
Alice
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"If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that."
The Red Queen Success
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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 Change
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"I'm sure I'm not Ada, for her hair goes in such long ringlets."
Alice
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"It's a looking-glass world on the other side."
Alice Imagination
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"I can't believe that!"
Alice Faith
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"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean."
Humpty Dumpty Power