Through The Looking Glass Quotes

• And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Wall, Glasses, Mirrors

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.14, Harper Collins

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  I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Change, Time

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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• It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophical, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1976). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: Musical”, p.13, Dramatic Publishing

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adventure, Wonderland, Care

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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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. That's logic.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wisdom, Mathematical Logic, Ghouls

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Thinking, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Sweet, Advice

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Birthday, Hypocrisy, Four

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, Oberon Books Limited

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• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean Girls, Use, Tone

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

  Lewis Carroll

  Kings, Real, Distance

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.53, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

  1865 The Duchess. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.

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• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Somewhere Else, Wonderland

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 2 (1872)

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Said, I Can

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Monsters, Alive

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook”, p.58, Wizio Publishing

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• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Carpe Diem, Vision

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Left, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”, p.37, First Avenue Editions

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• They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adjectives, Verbs, Language

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Different, Wonderland

  1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch.6,'Humpty Dumpty'.

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• Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Names, Laughing

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

  Lewis Carroll

  White, Black, Faults

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

  Lewis Carroll

  Travel, Wonderland, Way

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cry, Bits

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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