Quotes from CS Lewis

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

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

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew that a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but I can't give any advice on it.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Tea should be taken in solitude...

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.