Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 29, 1898 Death: November 22, 1963
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..
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life..
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!.
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had t….
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bre….
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon ….
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death..
I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me.….
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love..
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.
They did nothing wrong their time here has ended.
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy ….
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery..
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life..
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, ….
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give..
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on..
If things are real, they're there all the time..
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattentio….
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all..
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you….