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Best Bad Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't…
- Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the…
- And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the…
- There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
- Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
- If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this…
- Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
- If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place…
- Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.
- We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
- What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
- You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind…
- No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong…
- Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
- If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place…
- An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but…
- When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility…
- God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature…
More Bad Quotes
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- 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
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale
- People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it… — David Arquette
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe