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After Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it…
- Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.
- He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly…
- The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one…
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,…
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
- I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to…
- I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were…
- Die before you die, there is no chance after.
- It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because,…
- Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this…
- When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry…
- You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about…
- No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live…
- A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys…
- [S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that…
- 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…
- In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up…
- I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's…
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood