Screwtape Quotes

#1. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one
the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, ... Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

C.S. Lewis

#2. The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by
which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape

C.S. Lewis

#4. I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

Rachel Kushner

#6. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

Howard Warren Buffett

#7. The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

Wendy Wunder

#8. It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Hal Price

#9. Look for people around you and serve them with love and compassion

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

Yoan Alexandrov

#11. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

Richard P. Feynman

#13. Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

BD Wong

#14. There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things.

Adam Bagdasarian

#15. Prosperity knits a man to the world.

C.S. Lewis

#16. There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

C.S. Lewis

#17. It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make sure they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism.

C.S. Lewis

#18. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

C.S. Lewis