How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
C. S. LewisIf one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
C. S. LewisThe worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
C. S. LewisMost of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
C. S. LewisDon't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.
C. S. Lewis