Quotes from CS Lewis
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- CS Lewis
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
- CS Lewis
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
- CS Lewis
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
- CS Lewis
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
- CS Lewis
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
- CS Lewis
Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
- CS Lewis
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
- CS Lewis
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
- CS Lewis
Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
- CS Lewis
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.
- CS Lewis
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
- CS Lewis