Through the Looking-Glass

"If you think we're wax-works, you ought to pay, you know."

"I can't believe that!"

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

"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things"

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean"

"No, no, you're not listening properly"

"Hold up your head!"

"It saves time"

"Curtsey while you're thinking what to say"

"That's enough for one day, certainly"

"I am exactly ninety inches round"

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

"Sing me something now"

"Is life nothing but a dream?"

"The sun shines strongest in the cupboard"

"But it isn't, so it ain't. That's logic"

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be"

"I wish I hadn't come"

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

"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing"

"This is the most confusing thing I ever heard!"

"When you've once taken a king, you're bound to leave him or else you'll be killed by going upon the next square"

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

"That's a great deal to make one word mean, said Alice"

"You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir; but it seems very difficult to understand them"

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

"One can't believe impossible things"

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

"That's the most important piece, you know."

"You've begun wrong!"