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C.S. Lewis Quotes
«We treat our dogs as if they were 'almost human': that is why they really become 'almost human' in the end.»
«A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
least resistance, obsession, obsessions, resistance, sales, sales resistance
«Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading»
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Bach, go to sleep, infinitely, Plato, preparing, sleep in, standards, temperance, thankfulness
«The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
close corporation, corporation, electing, good-for-nothing, humorous, intend, jolly, leap, oxford, squeeze, successors, the revolution, untidy, when the time comes