C.S. Lewis Quotes

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

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

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The surest way to lose your soul is to try and save it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Friendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’”

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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

You can make anything by writing.

Children are not just cute and playful. They are a source of immense joy and wisdom, if only we listen to them.

C.S. Lewis Quotes part 2

Do not dare not to dare.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.

We are what we believe we are.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

The only way to deal with such people is to treat them as one would treat a dangerous lunatic.

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmān, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing… What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Pride is the great sin, the utmost evil.

We are what we believe we are.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’