2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.