Alice Through the Looking Glass Quotes

  • Cheshire Cat: [from trailer]

    Cheshire Cat: When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, When the clock strikes heavy and there's no time for tea. And in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.

  • Blue Caterpillar: [from trailer] You've been gone too long, Alice. There are matters which might benefit from your attention. Friends cannot be neglected. Hurry.

  • Alice Kingsleigh: [from trailer] Time is a he?

    White Queen: He is not someone you want as your enemy.

    Alice Kingsleigh: Please, sir. The Hatter is in danger.

    Time: Young lady, your time is up.

    Mad Hatter: This cannot be good.

  • Red Queen: [from trailer] Hello, Alice.

    Mad Hatter: Aaahhh!

  • Time: [from trailer] I present you with a gift.

    [He gives the Red Queen a tiny music box that has an executor beheaded the king]

    Red Queen: Haha!

  • Alice Kingsleigh: [from trailer] What's the matter?

    White Rabbit: The Hatter's the matter.

    Alice Kingsleigh: Hatter is my truest friend. If he's in need, I will help him.

  • Mad Hatter: He's stuck us all at one minute to tea time!

    March Hare: Tea time, forever!

  • White Queen: [from trailer] Hatter's counting on you.

    Cheshire Cat: We all are.

  • Red Queen: [from trailer] Oh, Alice, you always were an irksome, slurvish, interrupting thing! Hahahahaha!

  • Alice Kingsleigh: [from trailer] Hold on, everyone.

    Mad Hatter: I don't wanna hold on!

  • Humpty Dumpty: [from trailer; Alice bumps him from behind] Oh, no, not again!

    [He rolls, falls down a great height and his body cracked]

    Alice Kingsleigh: Sorry.

  • Time: Everyone parts with everything eventually, my dear.

  • Mad Hatter: [to Time] Is it true that you heal all wounds?

    March Hare: [sits next to Time and elbows him] Time is on my side!

    Mad Hatter: Why is it that you wait for no man?

    Mallymkun: [covers one eye] I just can't find the time!

    [Cheshire appears behind Time]

    Mallymkun: Cheshire! Where have you been? You're late.

    Cheshire Cat: [lands on Time's shoulders] Actually, I'm right on time.

    [Cheshire disappears and Mallymkun, March Hare, and Mad Hatter all laugh]

    Mad Hatter: [grabs Time's hand] I have time on my hand!

    Time: [losing patience] You silly nitwits really think that I've not heard these cheap jabs before? Your attempts at mockery fall flat.

    Mad Hatter: [plays with Time's shoulder pads] Look! Time is flying!

    Time: [stands up furiously] Enough! No more wasting me!

    Mad Hatter: [nervously] I'm having the time of my life?

  • Alice Kingsleigh: [finds a young Hatter at the marketplace] Hatter? Hatter? It's you!

    [hugs a surprised Hatter]

    Alice Kingsleigh: You're you again!

    Mad Hatter: Well, if I'm not, I wish I was. Have we met?

    Alice Kingsleigh: Yes! Well, no. I mean, not yet.

    Mad Hatter: That's funny. Actually, I should know you.

    Alice Kingsleigh: Well, we have met once when I was younger.

    Mad Hatter: Well, I'm afraid I don't recall.

    Alice Kingsleigh: That's because it hasn't happened yet.

    Mad Hatter: Oh. When will it happen?

    Alice Kingsleigh: Years from now, when you're older.

    Mad Hatter: [confused] I'll meet you when you're younger and I'm older.

    Alice Kingsleigh: I realize it doesn't make much sense.

    Mad Hatter: [pauses] Makes perfect sense to me. I'm Tarrant.

    Alice Kingsleigh: [shakes his hand] I know. I'm Alice.

    Mad Hatter: [amused] Alice? You seem to have time all mixed up.

  • Bayard: [after Alice falls from the sky and into a flower bed, her Underland friends surround and greet her] Alice.

    White Rabbit: [hops up to Alice and hugs her arm] Alice! Thank goodness you're finally here!

    March Hare: It's that girl again!

    Tweedledee: Alice! You're back!

    [the Bandersnatch roars his greeting and pants, smiling at Alice]

    Mallymkun: [to the Bandersnatch] Don't be nice to her. She's late.

    Alice Kingsleigh: Have I come at a bad time?

    White Queen: On the contrary. We were afraid you weren't coming at all.

    Alice Kingsleigh: What's the matter?

    White Rabbit: The Hatter's the matter.

    Tweedledee: Or the matter of the Hatter.

    Tweedledum: The former.

    Tweedledee: No, the latter.

    White Queen: [rolls her eyes] Tweedles.

    [gives them a look as if to say, "Get to the point, please."]

    Tweedledee: [in unison with Tweedledum] He's mad.

    Alice Kingsleigh: The Hatter?

    [the Tweedles nod]

    Alice Kingsleigh: Yes, I know.

    [climbs out of the flower bed and pulls her hair back in a half-up style]

    Alice Kingsleigh: That's his muchness. That's what makes him so... him.

    Tweedledee: But he's grown darker. Less dafter.

    Tweedledum: Denies himself laughter.

    Cheshire Cat: [appears in the tree above them] And no scheme of ours can raise any sort of smile. We rather hoped YOU might help us save him.

  • Mad Hatter: In the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I will meet

    Alice Kingsleigh: But a dream isn't reality...

    Mad Hatter: Who's to say which is which?

  • Time: He is me and I am he

    Time: All of that was or ever shall be.

  • Alice Kingsleigh: Alice Kingsleigh: I learned that I may not be able to change history but I can learn from it.

  • [first lines]

    Helmsman: Sir, shoals on every side. Sand or reef, I cannot say.

  • [last lines]

    James Harcourt: A full cargo aboard, Captain. Shall we commence with Kingsleigh and Kingsleigh's maiden voyage?

    Helen Kingsleigh: Time and tide wait for no man, Mr. Harcourt.

    Alice Kingsleigh: Or, indeed, woman.

    James Harcourt: Captain aboard. Full sail...

  • Time: [Alice has given Time her father's fob watch] It is said that time is no man's friend, but I will remember you. Please don't come back.

  • Alice Kingsleigh: The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.