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"Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description."

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…

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More Delightful Quotes

This quote is filed under Delightful Quotes, one of 408 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. — John Barrymore
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. — Joseph Brodsky
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. — Bill Bryson
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the… — Louisa May Alcott
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its… — Arthur Dove
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. — Edmund Spenser
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making… — William Cowper
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of… — Helen Keller
We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep.… — Jerry Seinfeld
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when… — Alexander Smith

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