2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.