All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the… Age
- And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will… All
- When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… Ashamed
- Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said… Aslan
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It… All
- Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name,… Believe
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these… Best
- I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying… All
- And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if… Bright
- Badness is only spoiled goodness. Badness
- We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the… All
- Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide… All
- For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Eternity
- They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being… Afraid
- The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,… Action
- Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level… Assassins
- But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt… Breathed
- Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned… Been
- The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning! Cross
- When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives… Abandoning
- My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected… Agree
- At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but… All
- this is a book about something Book
- Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of… Always Sends
- I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we… Attention