2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.