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Tell Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
- If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
- A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,…
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without…
- She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
- Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and…
- Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes,…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.
- You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once…
- 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…
- My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in…
- But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom…
- Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s…
- It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
- Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather…
- But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear…
- But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right –…
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not…
- 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…
- As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them,… — Dave Attell
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- 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
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden