Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things…
Quote
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The story behind this quote
The White Queen says this in chapter 5 of Through the Looking-Glass, “Wool and Water”. Alice, feeling lonely in the wood, has begun to cry; the Queen, alarmed, tells her to “consider” anything, her age for instance. Alice is “seven and a half exactly”. The Queen announces that she herself is “just one hundred and one, five months and a day”. Alice cannot believe it: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” replies the Queen, who at Alice’s age did it for half an hour a day. Then the wind blows her shawl across a brook, and moments later she turns into a sheep.
Lewis Carroll published this sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at the end of 1871. Its story follows a game of chess, in which Alice, a pawn, advances square by square to become a queen. The White Queen lives backwards and screams before she pricks her finger: for her, impossible things are the rule.
The source
Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 5 (the White Queen), 1871
Checked word for word in the work itself.
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Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Author
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford, wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass as Lewis Carroll. Their logic games and nonsense verse delight readers of every age.
Quotes by Lewis Carroll