2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.