CS Lewis Quotes

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

Overall, I'm quite good with how I spend my cashola.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.