C.S. Lewis Quotes

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."

I do wish," said Lucy, "now that we're not thirsty, we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on. I say great good will come of it. This is the true King of Narnia we've got here: a true King, coming back to true Narnia. And we beasts remember, even if Dwarfs forget, that Narnia was never right except when a son of Adam was King.