The Screwtape Letters Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

Janeane Garofalo

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

C.S. Lewis

#4. Prosperity knits a man to the world.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

Mark Lanegan

#6. Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#7. Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Noel Coward

#8. Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it's the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I expect, I won't be able to go anywhere. That's what I'm prepared to do, because my goal is to get my music to the world.

Aaron Dontez Yates

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

C.S. Lewis

#10. I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled sweetly and told me how terrible and fucked-up I was were complete fuckups themselves.

John Elder Robison

#11. That was the attraction of the sirens: not promises of power or riches, but bewildering, tantalizing prophecies that made men leap from their ships to go ask the crazy bitches what the fuck they were talking about.

Kevin Hearne

#12. FRONTA NULLA FIDES. Place no trust in appearances.

Amor Towles

#13. Seize every opportunity and make it great.

Lailah Gifty Akita