2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.