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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 80

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When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

Sweet, Strong, Air

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Kids, Warrior, Would Be

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.74, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

Girl, Men, Hair

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Tree, Remember, Remember Me

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.83, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

Rain, One Thing

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.104, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Talking, Water, House

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.72, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

Horse, Special You, Long

"The Horse and His Boy" by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 10), 1954.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

Father, Boxes, Please

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

Fall, Doe, Hook

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

Wish, Gum, Enough

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.27, Harper Collins

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Real, Peter, Professors

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.22, Harper Collins

Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.

Eye, Sunshine, Two

C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

Book, Heart, Iron

"The Gods Return to Earth". "Time and Tide", (p. 1082), August 14, 1954.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

Sleep, Air, Done

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.21, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

Wall, People, Broken

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

Names, Half, Curious

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.6, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

Girl, Writing, Boys

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.26, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

Earth

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

Lying, Heart, Jewels

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Rose, Black, One Day

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

Real, Battle, Lasts

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

Nephew, Magician, Remarks

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Stories, London, Rooms

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

Animal, Vegetables, Nephew

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.100, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

Joy, Humanity, Saint

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