CS Lewis Quotes

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

We haven't any and you're too young.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.