Quotes About Author

The moral principles that have priority in each model appear in the other model, but with lesser priorities. Those lesser priorities drastically change the effect of those principles.

I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee. I can arrange that.

What's a duck?" Luke asked curiously.

That's all nonsense, said Curdie. I don't know what you mean. Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved, and love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such shall be the universe, imperishable, divine.

Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity.

He never married. But he wrote a good book.

I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there.

The secret of your own heart you can never know; but you can know Him who knows its secret.

Complaint against God is far nearer to God than indifference about Him.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the business only of the clergy to care for souls.

Then you're leaving the story unfinished, Mr. Author! Not more unfinished then a story ought to be, I hope. If you ever knew a story finished, all I can say is, I never did. Somehow, stories won't finish. I think I know why, but I won't say that either, now.

He rebelled against the highest as if the highest were the lowest—as if the power that could create a heart for bliss, might gloat on its sufferings.

Now, you would hardly credit it, but my wife believes every fairy-tale that ever was written. I cannot account for it. She is a most sensible woman in everything else." "But should not that make you treat her belief with something of respect, though you cannot share in it yourself?

Although I had as yet no right to the honours of a knight, I ventured to conclude that the chamber was indeed intended for me; and, opening

No One Loves Because He Sees Why Where a man does not love, the not-loving must seem rational. For no one loves because he sees why, but because he loves. No human reason can be given for the highest necessity of divinely created existence. For reasons are always from above downward.

the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

my wife believes every fairy-tale that ever was written. I cannot account for it. She is a most sensible woman in everything else. But should not that make you treat her belief with something of respect, though you cannot share in it yourself?

Thus her long down-trodden imagination rose and took vengeance, even through those senses which she had thought to subordinate to her wicked will.

Here lies David Elginbrod Have mercy on my soul, dear God, As I would ye if I were God And ye were David Elginbrod.

Justice demands your punishment, because justice demands, and will have, the destruction of sin.