Famous Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms and Sentences

A quotation, also called a quote, is a fragment of a human expression, most often written or oral, which has been inserted into another human expression. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.




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C. E. Montague
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Stowe
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

C. Kent Wright
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

C. P. Snow
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C. P. Snow
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. S. Lewis
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

C. S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C. S. Lewis
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C. S. Lewis
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'

C. S. Lewis
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may

C. S. Lewis
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

C. S. Lewis
It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that bir

C. S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

C. S. Lewis
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

C. S. Lewis
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever h

C. S. Lewis
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

C. S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.


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