Through The Looking Glass Quotes

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

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

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

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

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

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

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

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

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.