Lewis Carroll Quotes

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

We all know how to be a child.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I didn't interpret it that way, as such. Children never interpret these things. They think they understand logically.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?