Frasi di Alan Alexander Milne pagina 5

“Per sempre non è lungo, Christopher, purché io sia con te.”

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“Se metto un nido d'ape fuori da casa mia, diventerà un alveare.”

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“Non puoi stare nel tuo angolo della foresta in attesa che gli altri vengano da te. A volte devi andare da loro.”

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“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”

Alan Alexander Milne: Frasi in inglese

“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Variante: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:
"I suppose all these people know better than I.
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh

“It looks like a bothering sort of day.”

“And how are you?", said Winnie-the-Pooh. (…)
"Not very how", he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.”

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Origine: Winnie the Pooh

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

Variante: For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
Origine: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, "Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."”

Origine: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace —
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They've great big parties inside the grounds.
"I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds",
Says Alice.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Six.

“I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow", Eeyore was saying. "Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of weather.”

A.A. Milne libro When We Were Very Young

When We Were Very Young (1924)

“Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

“You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own name WOL, and he could spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite comfortably when you weren't looking over his shoulder and saying "Well?"”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.

“Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

all the time, and he could—
Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five.

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Eight.

“"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter One, opening lines.

“Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Two.

“If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One.

“The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

“"H– hup!" said Roo accidentally.
"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.
"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One - Pooh.

“Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Ten.

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.”

Peace with Honour, 1934.

“Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

“Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Three.

“Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

“Kanga said to Roo, "Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards." So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once… and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Three.

“"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

A.A. Milne libro Winnie-the-Pooh

Origine: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Ten.

“Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.”

A.A. Milne libro The House at Pooh Corner

Origine: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.