2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.