Quotes from C. S. Lewis

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

Things always work according to their nature.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.