Frases de Lewis Carroll (279 citas, página 8)

Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013. ISBN 978-60-73116-31-2.

“Las mejores personas estan completamente locas”

Lewis Carroll

“Yo, señor, en realidad no sé quién soy en este momento, aunque esta mañana lo sabía muy bien cuando me levanté, ¡pero he cambiado tantas veces desde entonces!”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland

“Habla en francés cuando no te acuerdes de alguna palabra en castellano… acuérdate bien de andar con las puntas de los pies hacia afuera… y no te olvides nunca de quien eres!”

Lewis Carroll

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

“Alicia, y continuó. “¿Me dirías, por favor, qué camino debería tomar desde aquí?” “Eso depende en gran parte de a dónde quieres ir”, dijo el Gato. “No importa mucho dónde—”, dijo Alicia. “Entonces no importa qué camino tomas”, dijo el Gato. “—siempre y cuando llegue a alguna parte”, agregó Alicia a manera de explicación. “Oh, eso ocurrirá, sin duda”, dijo el Gato, “si caminas lo suficiente”.”

Lewis Carroll

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas

“Para quedarte donde estás tienes que correr lo más rápido que puedas…y si quieres ir a otro sitio, deberás correr, por lo menos, dos veces más rápido.”

Lewis Carroll

Fuente: Citado en Sainz de Vicuña Ancín, José María. Innovar con éxito. ESIC Editorial, 2006. ISBN 9788473564649. p. 147.

“Puedes llegar a cualquier parte, siempre que andes lo suficiente.”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland
Variante: Oh! Siempre llegarás a alguna parte, si caminas lo suficiente

“Adoro a los niños con excepción de los niños varones. Su raza no me es en absoluto atractiva.”

Lewis Carroll

Fuente: Qué pasa, números 455-467. Editor Segunda Editorial Portada, 1980. p. 37.

“Piensan que estoy loco por todos los niños. Pero no soy omnívoro como los cerdos, sino que selecciono.”

Lewis Carroll

Fuente: Citado en Sauret Guerrero, María TeresaLuchas de género en la historia a través de la imagen: ponencias y comunicaciones, Volumen 3. Editores María Teresa Sauret Guerrero, Amparo Quiles Faz. Editor Servicio de Publicaciones, Centro de Ediciones de la Diputación Provincial de Málaga, 2001. ISBN 9788477854166. p. 535.

“le gustan los gatos!”, gritó el ratón con voz apasionada y penetrante. “¿Te gustarían los gatos si fueses yo?” “Bueno, puede que no”, dijo Alicia en tono conciliador: “no se enoje. Y así y todo me encantaría presentarle a nuestra gata Dinah. Si sólo la viera, creo que le tomaría cariño a los gatos.”

Lewis Carroll

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas

“Sino sabes a dónde vas, cualquier camino te llevará allí”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland

“La cosa no tenía nada de muy especial, […] pero tampoco le pareció a Alicia que tuviera nada de muy extraño.”

Lewis Carroll

“No tiene utilidad volver ayer, porque entonces era una persona distinta”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

“pues a esta curiosa criatura le gustaba mucho pretender que era dos personas a la vez.”

Lewis Carroll

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas

“Y la moraleja de esto es… << Oh, el amor, el amor. El amor hace girar al mundo”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland

“Quiero decir, ¿qué es un regalo de no-cumpleaños?
- Un regalo que te hacen cuando no es tu cumpleaños, naturalmente.
Alicia meditó un momento. <>, dijo por fin.
- ¡No sabes lo que dices! -exclamó Tentetieso- ¿Cuántos días tiene el año?
- Trescientos sesenta y cinco -dijo Alicia.
- ¿Y cuántos cumpleaños tienes?
- Uno.
- Y si restas uno a trescientos sesenta y cinco, ¿cuántos te quedan?
- Trescientos sesenta y cuatro, naturalmente.
[…]
- Lo que demuestra que hay trescientos sesenta y cuatro días en que podrías recibir regalos de no-cumpleaños.
- Desde luego -dijo Alicia.
- Frente a sólo uno de cumpleaños. ¡Te has cubierto de gloria!”

Lewis Carroll libro A través del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos, el mundo giraría mucho más rápido”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland

“Todo tiene una moraleja, solo falta saber encontrarla”

Lewis Carroll libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll: Frases en inglés

“"True love gives true love of the best:
Then take," I cried, "my heart to thee!"
The very heart from out my breast
I plucked, I gave it willingly;
Her very heart she gave to me —
Then died the glory from the west.In the gray light I saw her face,
And it was withered, old, and gray;
The flowers were fading in their place,
Were fading with the fading day.”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Stolen Waters (1862)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack,
Ye little men of little souls!
And bid them huddle at your back -
Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails -
"Reward us, ere we think or write!
Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails
To sate the swinish appetite!"”

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Lewis Carroll

Fame's Penny-Trumpet st. 1 & 2
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping,
That lures the bird home to her nest?
Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping,
To cuddle and croon it to rest?”

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Lewis Carroll libro Sylvie and Bruno

Fuente: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet

“If the Letter is to be in answer to another, begin by getting out that other letter and reading it through, in order to refresh your memory, as to what it is you have to answer, and as to your correspondent’s present address (otherwise you will be sending your letter to his regular address in London, though he has been careful in writing to give you his Torquay address in full).”

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Lewis Carroll

Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (1890)

“Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.”

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Lewis Carroll

Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (1890)

“Oh, when I was a little Ghost,
A merry time had we!
Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
They gave us for our tea.”

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Lewis Carroll

Canto 4, "Hys Nouryture"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“And so it fell upon a day,
(That is, it never rose again)”

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Lewis Carroll

Lays of Sorrow No.1
The Rectory Umbrella

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.”

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Lewis Carroll

Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886

“A change came o'er my Vision - it was night:
We clove a pathway through a frantic throng:
The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright:
The chariots whirled along.

Within a marble hall a river ran -
A living tide, half muslin and half cloth:
And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan,
Yet swallowed down her wrath”

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Lewis Carroll

Four Riddles, no. I
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“Port-wine, he says, when rich and sound,
Warms his old bones like nectar:
And as the inns, where it is found,
Are his especial hunting-ground,
We call him the INN-SPECTRE.”

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Of "Inspector Kobold", a spectre
Canto 3, "Scarmoges"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three -
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the Sea.”

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Lewis Carroll

A Sea Dirge, st.1
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“All in the waning light she stood,
The star of perfect womanhood.”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Three Sunsets (1861), st. 1
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND,
And so I tell you flat.”

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Lewis Carroll

Canto 3
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“The `Why?' cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a spirit fresh from GOD's hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen: he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but an overflowing love--for I think a child's first attitude to the world is a simple love for all living things: and he will have learned that the best work a man can do is when he works for love's sake only, with no thought of name, or gain, or earthly reward. No deed of ours, I suppose, on this side the grave, is really unselfish: yet if one can put forth all one's powers in a task where nothing of reward is hoped for but a little child's whispered thanks, and the airy touch of a little child's pure lips, one seems to come somewhere near to this.”

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Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1886), Introduction, p. v

“All too soon will Childhood gay
Realise Life's sober sadness.
Let's be merry while we may,
Innocent and happy Fay!
Elves were made for gladness!”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Puck Lost and Found (1891)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“The light was faint, and soft the air
That breathed around the place;
And she was lithe, and tall, and fair,
And with a wayward grace
Her queenly head she bare.”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Stolen Waters (1862), st. 1
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!”

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Lewis Carroll libro Sylvie and Bruno

Fuente: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet

“As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.”

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Lewis Carroll

Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422

“An island-farm — broad seas of corn
Stirred by the wandering breath of morn —
The happy spot where I was born.”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Faces in the Fire (1860), st. 2
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark.”

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Canto 1
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“If doubtful whether to end with “yours faithfully”, or “yours truly”, or “your most truly”, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach “yours affectionately”), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!”

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Lewis Carroll

Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (1890)

“To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.”

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Lewis Carroll

Inscribed in Mrs. Lorina Liddell's copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground; quoted by Edward Wakeling http://www.wakeling.demon.co.uk/page3-real-lewiscarroll.htm

“Less Bread! More Taxes!--and then all the people cheered again, and one man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his hat high into the air, and shouted (as well as I could make out) "Who roar for the Sub-Warden?" Everybody roared, but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting "Bread!"”

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Lewis Carroll libro Sylvie and Bruno

and some "Taxes!", but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted.
Opening lines
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)

“I mark this day with a white stone.”

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Lewis Carroll

19 December 1863; he frequently used this or a similar phrase for especially notable days.
Diaries

“The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!”

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Lewis Carroll libro Sylvie and Bruno

Fuente: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 25 : Looking Eastward

“O bitter is it to abide
In weariness alway:
At dawn to sigh for eventide,
At eventide for day.
Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone:
The brightness of thy day is gone:
What need to lag and linger on
Till life be cold and gray?”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1868)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“Went to the new Church both morning and afternoon, and read service in the afternoon. I got through it all with great success, till I came to read out the first verse of the hymn before the sermon, where the two words ‘strife strengthened,’ coming together, were too much for me, and I had to leave the verse unfinished.”

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Lewis Carroll

31 August 1862
Diaries

“Fair stands the ancient Rectory,
The Rectory of Croft,
The sun shines bright upon it,
The breezes whisper soft.
From all the house and garden
Its inhabitants come forth,
And muster in the road without,
And pace in twos and threes about,
The children of the North.”

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Lewis Carroll

Lays of Sorrow No. 2, opening lines
The Rectory Umbrella

“What may I do?”

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Lewis Carroll

at length I cried,
Tired of the painful task.
The fairy quietly replied,
And said "You must not ask."
My Fairy
Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”

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it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886