It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.