Through the Looking Glass Quotes – Wisdom and Peculiarities from Lewis Carroll’s Classic

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

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

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself you see.

I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly, Alice, for I can’t understand it myself.

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

Alice laughed: ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said; ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’

Curiouser and curiouser!

I can’t help it, she said to herself, I’m sure I can’t, I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen.

That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lessen from day to day.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

Through the Looking Glass Quotes – Wisdom and Peculiarities from Lewis Carroll’s Classic part 2

What an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps a blackberry doesn’t ripen on a leap-year.

So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.

But I don’t want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can’t help that, said the Cat: we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. How do you know I’m mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here.

When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

When I say ‘dinah’,’ said the Cat, ‘I’ve said everything.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Off with her head!

Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!

I’m glad I’ve seen that done, she thought. I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, ‘There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,’ and I never understood what it meant till now.

I can’t stand this any longer, she said to herself. I must go and get some more to put under his feet.’

Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

If there’s no meaning in it, said the King, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any.

I have proved by actual trial that it’s less exciting than it looks.

And how funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The Antipathies, I think—’ (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word)— ‘but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?’ (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke—fancy curtseying as you’re falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) ‘And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.’

Don’t go spluttering like that!’ cried the Queen, ‘all dripping wet. It was Bill’s fault you were wet. We meant to leave it behind us, being a thorough.-stitched one, you know—’ (The Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, ‘Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet? ‘No,’ said Alice. ‘I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.’ ‘It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,’ said the Queen. ‘I never saw one, or heard of one,’ said Alice. ‘Come on, then,’ said the Queen, ‘and he shall tell you his history,’)

I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, because I’m not myself you see.

I dare say you haven’t had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.

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!

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly; but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I’ll write one.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I’ll write one.

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.

That’s the effect of living backwards, the Queen said kindly: it always makes one a little giddy at first–

I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself, you see.

There is no use trying,” Alice said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I’m quite tired of this place. I’ve had all the fun I can stand. I’m going home.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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

When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Curiouser and curiouser!

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.