--- title: "7 Mock Turtle Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 7 Mock Turtle quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Mock Turtle sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/alice-in-wonderland-17082_ambition_reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin_271089.jpg" --- > [Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic...Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. -The Mock Turtle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-in-wonderland/reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin-with-and-then-the-different/) [Alice In Wonderland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-in-wonderland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/alice-in-wonderland-17082_ambition_reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin_271089.jpg) > [“yet?' 'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.' 'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/yet-no-said-alice-i-don-t-even-know-what-a-mock-turtle-is-it-s-the/) [Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/lewis-carroll-324_good-thing_yet-no-said-alice-i-don-t-even-know-what_604751.jpg) > [The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/the-master-was-an-old-turtle-we-used-to-call-him-tortoise-why-did-you/) [Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a0/lewis-carroll-324_ashamed_the-master-was-an-old-turtle-we-used-to_1062639.jpg) > ["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin-with-the-mock-turtle-replied/) [Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/lewis-carroll-324_ambition_reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin_1185321.jpg) > [Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/reform-judaism-is-like-mock-turtle-soup-turtle-soup-without-the-turtle/) [Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/746/heinrich-heine-1170_judaism_reform-judaism-is-like-mock-turtle-soup_1570774.jpg) > [We called him Tortoise because he taught us. -The Mock Turtle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-in-wonderland/we-called-him-tortoise-because-he-taught-us-the-mock-turtle/) [Alice In Wonderland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-in-wonderland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecb/alice-in-wonderland-17082_quote_we-called-him-tortoise-because-he-taught_1994821.jpg) > [Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/well-i-never-heard-it-before-said-the-mock-turtle-but-it-sounds/) [Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/lewis-carroll-324_alice-adventures-in_well-i-never-heard-it-before-said-the-mo_3168372.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mock-turtle/#itemlist", "name": "Mock Turtle Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic...Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. -The Mock Turtle", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice In Wonderland" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-in-wonderland/reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin-with-and-then-the-different/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/alice-in-wonderland-17082_ambition_reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin_271089.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/alice-in-wonderland-17082_ambition_reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin_271089.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/alice-in-wonderland-17082_ambition_reeling-and-writhing-of-course-to-begin_271089.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic...Ambition…” — Alice In Wonderland", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“yet?' 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