"Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish……" — C.S. Lewis

"Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."

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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 Dragon Quotes

This quote is filed under Dragon Quotes, one of 331 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with… — Mario Batali
Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've… — Jo Brand
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. — Steven Brust
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's… — Tori Amos
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot… — Audre Lorde
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and… — A. Whitney Brown
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40… — Don Bluth
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. — Steven Pressfield

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