Through The Looking Glass Quotes

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

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

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 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.

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

From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

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 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. There goes the shawl again!

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.

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

It is a curious fact that with ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me… I have done nothing in that direction since.

Know what you’re talking about.

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

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.

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