C. S. Lewis Quotes
And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
Lewis, C. S. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Geoffrey Bles, 1956, p. 265.
5th Earl of Montrose. Argyle had sentenced him to death. When he appeared at the scaffold he was formally and elegantly dressed and began combing his long hair. Argyle asked what why he was doing such a foolish thing at that time. These were his famous last words.
Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
