Lewis Carroll: Frasi in inglese (pagina 4)

“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”

“Little Alice fell
d
o
w
n
the hOle,
bumped her head
and bruised her soul”

“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam.”
“Itcome sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it ca’n’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam everyday: to-day isn’t anyday, you know”

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

“It's always tea-time.”

“We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad”

“If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”

“Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!”

“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves”

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

“Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.”

“Life, what is it but a dream?”

“That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.”

“It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--…”

“But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?”

“How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly he spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!”