Top 11 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.

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

Lewis Carroll

Adjectives, Verbs, Through The Looking Glass

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

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

Lewis Carroll

Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Said

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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

Lewis Carroll

Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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

Lewis Carroll

Dream, Through The Looking Glass, Left

Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”, p.37, First Avenue Editions

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.

Lewis Carroll

Mean, Two, Through The Looking Glass

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

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

Lewis Carroll

Poetry, Good Man, Through The Looking Glass

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