CS Lewis Quotes

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

Adversity defines true character.

Whatever you want to do, go do it.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

I love America, but I don't like it.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.