You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By having a great many friends I do not prove that I have a wide appreciation of human excellence. You might as… — C. S. LEWIS Copy Share Image
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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