Lewis Carroll Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

• I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Children, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John Tenniel (1998). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

• Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Dream, Children

  Lewis Carroll (2000). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, p.118, Penguin

• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

• We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Bedtime, Aging

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

• Child of the pure unclouded brow
  And dreaming eyes of wonder!
  Though time be fleet, and I and thou
  Are half a life asunder,
  Thy loving smile will surely hail
  The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

• If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Thinking, Pigs

  Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle: The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers”, p.425, Modern Library

• I am fond of children - except boys.

  Lewis Carroll

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Letter to Kathleen Eschwege, 24 Oct. 1879

• 'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

• So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Names, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.50

• You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Thinking, Moral

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com

• Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

• When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Children, People

  Lewis Carroll “Alice's Adventures”, Lulu.com

• Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Believe

  Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

• What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Hands, Should Have

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.258, Wordsworth Editions

• Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Children, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Sylvie and Bruno”, p.181, Lewis Carroll

• Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Voice, Bed

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

• Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friday, Morning, Children

• There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

  Lewis Carroll

  Education, Children, Hate

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.309, Race Point Pub

• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Growing Up, Way

• I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mother, Children, Race

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.78, Springer

• I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Lovely, Wish

  Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

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