CS Lewis Quotes

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Off with their heads!

“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

The artist is justified by his art.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.

I've tried lots with my hair. Obviously I used to have it as a number one all over, super easy, but then I started to grow it out. I had an afro and then I got rid of the sides.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".

God loves the noise as much as the signal.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

Trend is not destiny.

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"