2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

The absent are easily refuted.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Things never happen the same way twice.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Why must holy places be dark places?

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.