2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.