18 Quotes by cs lewis

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things.

La amistad nace en el momento en el que una persona le dice a la otra: ¿Qué? ¿Tu también ? Pensé que era el único.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

A taste for the comics is excusable only by extreme youth because it involves an acquiescence in hideous draughtsmanship and a scarcely human coarseness and flatness of narration.

The most recent is not necessarily the best. It is still on trial, and has yet to be assessed properly.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, ‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?’ We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven — a senile benevolence who, as they say, ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves,’ and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, ‘a good time was had by all.

Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.