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Lewis Carroll, pseudonyme de Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, est un romancier, essayiste, photographe et professeur de mathématiques britannique né le 27 janvier 1832 à Daresbury, dans le Cheshire et mort le 14 janvier 1898 à Guildford.

✵ 27. janvier 1832 – 14. janvier 1898
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Lewis Carroll citations célèbres

“Je vois personne sur la route", dit Alice.
"Comme je voudrais avoir d'aussi bons yeux", remarqua le roi d'un ton amer. "Voir Personne! Et à cette distance encore! Moi, tout ce dont je suis capable de voir, sous cette lumière, c'est des gens!”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Alice in Wonderland

“Plus bas, encore plus bas, toujours plus bas.”

Lewis Carroll

“si l'on boit une bonne partie du contenu d'une bouteille portant l'étiquette: poison, ça ne manque presque jamais, tôt ou tard, d'être mauvais pour la santé.”

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Alice aux pays des merveilles

“semble drôle, pensa Alice, de faire des commissions pour un lapin ! Après ça, je suppose que c'est Dinah qui m'enverra faire des commissions !» Et elle”

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Alice aux pays des merveilles

Lewis Carroll: Citations en anglais

“There was once a young man of Oporta,
Who daily got shorter and shorter,
The reason he said
Was the hod on his head
Which was filled with the heaviest mortar.”

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Melodies No. 3
Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)

“That narrow window, I expect,
Serves but to let the dusk in - "
"But please," said I, "to recollect
'Twas fashioned by an architect
Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!”

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Canto 3
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“You have no mind to be unkind,"
Said echo in her ear:
"No mind to bring a living thing
To suffering or fear.
For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind,
my dear.”

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"To Janet Merriman", quoted in Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) p. 81

“Since I have possessed a "Wonderland Stamp Case", Life has been bright and peaceful, and I have used no other. I believe the Queen's laundress uses no other.”

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

“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust.”

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To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train
Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421

“A sadder vision yet: thine aged sire
Shaming his hoary locks with treacherous wile!
And dost thou now doubt Truth to be a liar?
And wilt thou die, that hast forgot to smile?”

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

“God has given to Man an absolute right to take the lives of other animals, for any reasonable cause, such as the supply of food; but He has not given to Man the right to inflict pain, unless where necessary.”

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Lewis Carroll livre Sylvie and Bruno

Introduction
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)

“I NEVER loved a dear Gazelle –
Nor anything that cost me much:
High prices profit those who sell,
but why should I be fond of such?”

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Tèma con Variazióne, st. 1
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“He is immensely fat, and so
Well suits the occupation:
In point of fact, if you must know,
We used to call him years ago,
THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION!”

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Canto 5
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning,
Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease?
That stirs the vexed soul with an aching — a yearning
For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?”

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Lewis Carroll livre Sylvie and Bruno

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

“Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3.”

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

“From his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding rosewood;
Neatly put it all together.
In its case it lay compactly,
Folded into nearly nothing;

But he opened out the hinges,
Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges,
Till it looked all squares and oblongs,
Like a complicated figure
In the Second Book of Euclid.”

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Hiawatha's Photographing st. 1 & 2
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“So, to reward him for his run
(As it was baking hot,
And he was over twenty stone),
The King proceeded, half in fun,
To knight him on the spot.”

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Explaining the Knight-Mayor's name
Canto 5
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“The rabbits bow before thee,
And cower in the straw;
The chickens are submissive,
And own thy will for law;
Bullfinches and canary
Thy bidding do obey;
And e'en the tortoise in its shell
Doth never say thee nay.”

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Lays of Sorrow No. 2
The Rectory Umbrella

“"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies,
"Out there upon the landing."
I turned to look in some surprise,
And there, before my very eyes,
A little Ghost was standing!”

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Canto 1, "The Trysting"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“The dying crimson of the West
That faintly tinged his haggard cheek,
Fell on her as she stood, and shed
A glory round the patient head.”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Three Sunsets (1861)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“Who's the Knight-Mayor?" I cried. Instead
Of answering my question,
"Well, if you don't know THAT," he said,
"Either you never go to bed,
Or you've a grand digestion!”

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Canto 5, "Byckerment"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“Some American writer has said “the snakes in this district may be divided into one species—the venomous”. The same principle applies here. Postage-Stamp-Cases may be divided into one species, the “Wonderland”. Imitations of it will soon appear, no doubt: but they cannot include the two Pictorial Surprises, which are copyright.You don't see why I call them 'Surprises'? Well, take the Case in your left hand, and regard it attentively. You see Alice nursing the Duchess's Baby? (An entirely new combination, by the way : it doesn't occur in the book.) Now, with your right thumb and forefinger, lay hold of the little book, and suddenly pull it out. The Baby has turned into a Pig I If that doesn't surprise you, why, I suppose you wouldn't be surprised if your own Mother-in-law suddenly turned into a Gyroscope!”

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

“Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Was eight years old, she said:
Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread.”

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Echoes
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“The air is bright with hues of light
And rich with laughter and with singing:
Young hearts beat high in ecstasy,
And banners wave, and bells are ringing:
But silence falls with fading day,
And there's an end to mirth and play.
Ah, well-a-day!”

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

“I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. "When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!"”

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Lewis Carroll livre Sylvie and Bruno

Source: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 1: Bruno's Lessons

“And at last we've got to the end of this ideal racecourse! Now that you accept A and B and C and D, of course you accept Z."
"Do I?" said the Tortoise innocently. "Let's make that quite clear. I accept A and B and C and D. Suppose I still refused to accept Z?"
"Then Logic would take you by the throat, and force you to do it!" Achilles triumphantly replied. "Logic would tell you, 'You can't help yourself. Now that you've accepted A and B and C and D, you must accept Z!' So you've no choice, you see."
"Whatever Logic is good enough to tell me is worth writing down," said the Tortoise. "So enter it in your notebook, please. We will call it
(E) If A and B and C and D are true, Z must be true.
Until I've granted that, of course I needn't grant Z. So it's quite a necessary step, you see?”

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Lewis Carroll livre What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

"I see," said Achilles; and there was a touch of sadness in his tone.
"What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", Mind, n.s., 4 (1895), pp. 278–80

“"What may I do?" at length I cried,
Tired of the painful task.
The fairy quietly replied,
And said "You must not ask."”

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My Fairy
Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)

“'O gin I find anither ladye,'
He said wi' sighs and tears,
'I wot my coortin' sall not be
Anither thirty years:

For gin I find a ladye gay,
Exactly to my taste,
I'll pop the question, aye or nay,
In twenty years at maist.”

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The Lang Coortin, last two stanzas
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

“Last night we owned, with looks forlorn,
"Too well the scholar knows
There is no rose without a thorn" —
But peace is made! We sing, this morn,
"No thorn without a rose!"
Our Latin lesson is complete:
We've learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet!”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

A Lesson in Latin (1888), st. 3
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“One winter night, at half past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine”

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Opening lines
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty-two,
Was no great compliment!”

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Canto 1
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?”

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Lewis Carroll livre Sylvie and Bruno

Source: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 4 : A Cunning Conspiracy

“And she arose, and in that darkening room
Stood lonely as a spirit of the night —
Stood calm and fearless in the gathered night —
And raised her eyes to heaven. There were tears
Upon her face, but in her heart was peace.
Peace that the world nor gives nor takes away!”

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Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems

The Path of Roses (1856), concluding lines
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

“The pictures, with their ruddy light,
Are changed to dust and ashes white,
And I am left alone with night.”

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Faces in the Fire (1860), st. 13
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

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