Through The Looking Glass Quotes by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Jonis Agee, Johnny Depp, Simon Pegg, Steven Pinker and many others.
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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.
It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know.
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.
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.
I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it– it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.
You couldn’t have it if you DID want it.
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!
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again
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!
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 –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
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.
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.
They’ve a temper, some of them – particularly verbs, they’re the proudest – adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
