C. S. Lewis Quotes

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

I find myself having these conversations where I go...You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know. And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

The last time I used? What do you mean? I used my toaster this morning.

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did?

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

I have no answers, but every day I wish I could have the same point of view for any 24-hour period. I wish I was in some system where I don't constantly question myself.

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean