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Through the Looking Glass quotes
14 quotes from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #12 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream?
“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!”
— the Queen · II. The Garden of Live Flowers
It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know.
— Spoken by a character · II. The Garden of Live Flowers
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
— Spoken by a character · I. Looking-Glass house
Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
— the Queen · V. Wool and Water
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”
— the Queen · V. Wool and Water
“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you’d be?”
— Tweedledee · IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
— Spoken by a character · I. Looking-Glass house
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.’
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright— And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
— Spoken by a character · IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee
“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”
— Spoken by a character · III. Looking-Glass Insects
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?
— Alice · I. Looking-Glass house