Through The Looking Glass Quotes

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!

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.

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

“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.”

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?” “Three hundred and sixty-four, of course.” Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, “I’d rather see that done on paper,” he said.

Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he’d thrown in there.

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.

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

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented – and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.

Know what you are talking about.

‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’

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

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