Quote

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

C. S. Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Essayist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Clive Hamilton
N. W. Clerk
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Pride
People
Irritates

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

Image
Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Image
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
C. S. Lewis
Image
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to rejoice as much as by anything else
C. S. Lewis
Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.
C. S. Lewis
Image
When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
C. S. Lewis
Image
I was with book, as a woman is with child.
C. S. Lewis
Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.
C. S. Lewis
Image
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you, said the Lion.
C. S. Lewis
Image
He cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
C. S. Lewis
Image
You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
C. S. Lewis
Image
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
C. S. Lewis
Image
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
C. S. Lewis