2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.