Lewis Carroll: Frasi in inglese

Lewis Carroll era scrittore, matematico e fotografo britannico. Frasi in inglese.

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“Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything
that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral
of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”

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Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.”

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

“I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.”

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

“When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.”

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“So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.”

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

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.”

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Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky

Origine: Jabberwocky

“Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.”

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Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”

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“I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.”

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

“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”

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Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in Once Upon a Time (TV series) in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad Hatter appears. – Ref: Internet Movie Database (IMDb), quotes from Once upon a Time, "Hat Trick" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2104520/quotes. <br class="br">Misattributed

“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

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Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.”

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Variante: Alice thought to herself "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

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

“Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”

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Origine: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass

“Birds of a feather flock together”

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Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice in Wonderland

“The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.”

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“at any rate, there's no harm in trying.”

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Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

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Lewis Carroll libro Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.”

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“I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—
I said it in German and Greek;
But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
That English is what you speak!”

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