CS Lewis Quotes

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

If you thirst you may drink.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Am I lost or just less found?

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.