The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

No! No! Sentence first—verdict afterwards.
‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865) ch. 12
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 1
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
‘And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 1
Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 2
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!
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 2
Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 2
If you think we’re wax-works, you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works weren’t made to be
looked at for nothing. Nohow!
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 4
‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be:
but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 4
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand: