2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.