Through the Looking-Glass

Book · 5 characters · 511 quotes · 1865

Quotes from Through the Looking-Glass

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"I dreamt I was in a looking glass house"
Alice Dreams
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"The question is—which is to be master?"
Humpty Dumpty Power
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"But it isn't, you know"
Alice Truth
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"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be"
Humpty Dumpty
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"I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly"
Alice
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"It's as large as life, and twice as natural"
Alice
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"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do"
The Red Queen Motivation
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"I see what you're at, you want to get some advantage"
The Red Queen
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"The lesson is, that we should do whatever we like"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Freedom
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"You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
Alice Courage
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"What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?"
Alice Literature
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"That's the effect of the looking glass, perhaps"
Alice Imagination
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"Off with their heads!"
The Red Queen Power
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"The question is whether you can make words mean different things"
Humpty Dumpty
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"In my youth I believed in everything; now I believe in nothing"
Humpty Dumpty Truth
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"You see, it's like a looking-glass world"
Alice Imagination
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"All this time we've been talking, I've been trying to understand"
Alice Education
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"Things are never as complicated as they seem"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields"
Alice Nature
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"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Philosophy
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"You can't take too much care of the meaning"
Humpty Dumpty Knowledge
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret"
Alice Wisdom
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"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place"
The Red Queen Perseverance
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"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
Alice
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"Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to."
The Cheshire Cat Motivation
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"I am real! Real!"
Alice
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"I wonder what the Crow's opinion is of him."
Alice Relationships
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"You can't help it. We're all mad here."
The Cheshire Cat
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"But I don't want to go among mad people."
Alice Fear
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"Now I'll tell you the news. Hush, hush!"
The Red Queen