2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.