Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.