2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.