100+ Through The Looking Glass Quotes

source: Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.197, e-artnow

topic: Poetry, Good Man, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

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

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

topic: Wall, Glasses, Mirrors, Through The Looking Glass

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

topic: Life, Time, Insperational, Past Present Future Love, People Changing

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

topic: Running, Want, Modernity, Queen Of Hearts, Red Queen

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

topic: Ignorance, Six, Breakfast, Impossible Dream, Favourite Book

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 â€“" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Adventure, Way, Care, Which Way To Go, Adventure And Life

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

topic: Ghouls, Would Be, Might, Mathematical Logic, Reason And Logic

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

topic: Morning, Thinking, Changed, Alice And Wonderland Book, Alice In Wonderland Alice

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Happiness, Sweet, Advice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

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

topic: Good Night, Summer, Nature, Inspiring Nature, Summer And Winter

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

topic: Birthday, Hypocrisy, Three, Humorous Birthday, Humpty Dumpty

'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

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

topic: Mean Girls, Use, Tone, Humpty Dumpty, Alice In Wonderland Alice

"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

topic: Kings, Real, Distance, Through The Looking Glass

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Cute, Children's Books, Duchess

'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

topic: Time, Kings, Shoes, Carpenter, Walrus

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

topic: Believe, Fabulous, Saws, Seeing Is Believing, Through The Looking Glass

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Memories, Carpe Diem, Vision, Knowledge Of The Past, Poor Memory

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

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

topic: Mean, Different, Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty, Alice In Wonderland Alice

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

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

topic: Mean, Names, Laughing, Humpty Dumpty, Through The Looking Glass

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

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

topic: White, Black, Faults, Through The Looking Glass

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.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin

topic: Three, Done, Paper, Humpty Dumpty, Through The Looking Glass

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

- Lewis Carroll

source: Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865).

topic: Writing, Ravens, Mad, Hares, Alice And Wonderland Book

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Broken Heart, Queens, Kings, Memorandum, Through The Looking Glass

It's a large as life and twice as natural