Lewis Carroll: Frasi in inglese

Lewis Carroll era scrittore, matematico e fotografo britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”

Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll frase: “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Variante: But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”

Variante: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Variante: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”

Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Variante: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”

Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Variante: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

This is a paraphrase of statement in a thank you note from Carroll to a childhood friend, the actress Ellen Terry, published in Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1997), p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&lpg=PA126&vq=%22do%20for%20others%22&pg=PA126#v=snippet&q=%22do%20for%20others%22&f=fals by Nina Auerbach: "... and so you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?"
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