Quotes from C. S. Lewis

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.