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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

“"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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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 livre Sylvie and Bruno

Source: 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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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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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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Canto 4, "Hys Nouryture"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

“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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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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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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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)

“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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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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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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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 livre Sylvie and Bruno

Source: 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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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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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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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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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 livre 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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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 livre Sylvie and Bruno

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

“What may I do?”

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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

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