Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There Quotes

No admittance till the week after next!

It's my own invention.

It's as large as life, and twice as natural!

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that's all.’

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

There's glory for you!

They gave it me,—for an un-birthday present.

With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.

But answer came there none.

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.’

‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘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.’

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

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!

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

‘And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!’