Through the Looking-Glass

Book · 5 characters · 511 quotes · 1865

Quotes from Through the Looking-Glass

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"I've dined with the King tonight."
Humpty Dumpty
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"It's like a riddle with no answer."
Alice
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"I'm not sure what the moral of that is."
Alice
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"Which way does the game go on?"
Alice
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"I like the Walrus better than the Carpenter."
Alice
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"That's not grammar. That's not even sense."
Alice
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"I'm sure I'm not myself, you see."
Alice
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"The beauty of that is, that you can choose what you'll believe."
Alice
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"A soldier shouldn't be afraid."
Alice Courage
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"We are the eggmen. Coo-coo-a-choo."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"They seem to put everything into it."
Alice
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"What a curious thing to do!"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Humor
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"It's as large as life, and twice as natural!"
Alice
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"Off with her head!"
The Red Queen Power
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"It's rather a hard riddle, isn't it?"
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 can explain all the poems that ever were invented."
Humpty Dumpty Knowledge
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"But then, you see, words mean more than we mean when we use them."
Humpty Dumpty
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"Well, in our country you'd generally get to somewhere else if you ran very fast for a long time."
Alice Wisdom
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"You're not really here—this is only a dream!"
The Red Queen
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"It's like a child's puzzle."
Alice
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"I believe in you."
Alice Faith
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"You seem very clever at explaining words, sir, but I don't quite understand you yet."
Alice Education
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"I like the Walrus best because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters."
Alice Kindness
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"One can't believe impossible things."
Alice Imagination
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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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"I'm very brave generally, only today I happen to have a headache."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Courage
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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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"All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again."
Humpty Dumpty Wisdom
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"Did you ever see such a thing?"
Alice