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Serious Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
- Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life,…
- Joy is the serious business of heaven.
- There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- 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…
- and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
- Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid…
- No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of…
- 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…
- It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
- I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get…
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- I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
- Serious journalism need not be solemn. — Russell Baker
- How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun. — Christian Bale
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