C S Lewis Screwtape Letters Quotes & Sayings

"Never scare me like that again," I say.
He lifts an eyebrow. "Hey, that's my line." Using my dreadlock, he draws my face close and brushes his lips and labret across my forehead, then down my temple to my mouth in a gentle peck. — A.G. Howard

Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn't believe in cunnilingus ... — Roberto Hogue

If someone kills your family you don't rest until they are dead. — C.S. Pacat

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C.S. Lewis

It's just the easiest way to score a point. — Lloy Ball

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. — C.S. Lewis

Without reply Joel made his way to follow Alex and the girls up to the lift. Swallowing a lump in my throat I grabbed my board and ran to catch up. I had a feeling that Joel was capable of turning even fun into work. — Shawn Kirsten Maravel

Your man may be untroubled about the Future, not because he is concerned with the Present, but because he has persuaded himself that the Future is going to be agreeable. As long as that is the real course of his tranquillity, his tranquillity will do us good, because it is only piling up more disappointment, and therefore more impatience, for him when his false hopes are dashed. If, on the other hand, he is aware that horrors may be in store for him and is praying for the virtues, wherewith to meet them, and meanwhile concerning himself with the Present because there, and there alone, all duty, all grace, all knowledge, and all pleasure dwell, his state is very undesirable and should be attacked at once. — C.S. Lewis

Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe. — Gabrielle Zevin

You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course. — Carlos Ghosn

Prosperity knits a man to the world. — C.S. Lewis

When looked at from the woman's side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning. — Orna Ross

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest. — Richard Branson

We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style. — Deepa Mehta

It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make sure they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism. — C.S. Lewis

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. — Atul Gawande

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under. — C.S. Lewis