C. S. Lewis Quotes
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.
Lewis, C. S. Prince Caspian. Geoffrey Bles, 1951, p. 104.
He was outraged at what he perceived to the coverage of him that he felt attacked his honor and character.
The line was a quotation from Chaucer.
He was referring to a vice president of Raytheon, a Navy contractor, who had made a public statement supporting budget reductions for the defense department. The Raytheon officer lost his job.
At the height of his professional career, this Hall of Famer enlisted in the WWII Navy and was an anti-aircraft gunner and fought in the Pacific.
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.
