Frases célebres de William Claude Fields
William Claude Fields Frases y Citas
“Creo que va a ser una guerra corta.”
Cuando los japoneses atacaron Pearl Harbor, Fields fue con un cargador de mano a una licorería y compró seis cajas grandes de ginebra. Un amigo lo vio y le preguntó por qué había comprado seis cajas.
“Más vale que haya, porque en este no hay.”
Cuando se le preguntó (en su vejez) si creía que habría vida inteligente en otros planetas.
William Claude Fields: Frases en inglés

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
The earliest source found in Google Books dates from 1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=4uc0AQAAIAAJ&q=%22baffle+them%22+dazzle&dq=%22baffle+them%22+dazzle&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKm4ad8rbLAhVM1GMKHa8WDQcQ6AEIJTAC, and does not attribute it to W. C. Fields but to a certain "Bill": I said, "What do you do, Bill?" He says "Well, if I can't dazzle them with my brilliance I baffle them with my bull," and doggone if he doesn't. Not found attributed to W. C. Fields until 2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=-7MizCVNXPEC&pg=PA44&dq=dazzle+%22with+brilliance%22+baffle+fields&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW0Yzv9rbLAhUT2mMKHW1nAd0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=dazzle%20%22with%20brilliance%22%20baffle%20fields&f=false.
Misattributed
“Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.”
Although very commonly attributed to Fields, this is derived from a statement that was actually first said about him by Leo Rosten during a "roast" at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) "The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
Misattributed
Variante: Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Variante: 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink. I never had the courtesy to thank her.
“I never voted for anybody. I always voted against.”
As recounted by Robert Lewis Taylor in W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes
Variante: I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.