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Reading Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We read to know we are not alone.
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books…
- It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
- The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading…
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
- As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is…
- Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of…
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
- The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be…
- You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,…
- A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
- Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
- 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…
- I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
- It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
- 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,…
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
More Reading Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen