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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) QUOTES

The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) QUOTES

21 " If you thirst you may drink. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

22 " Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

23 " Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

24 " Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

25 " Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

26 " A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

27 " I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

28 " When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties! "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

29 " Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

30 " And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

31 " Tu-whoo! Ahem! Lord Regent," said the Owl, stooping down a little and holding its beak near the Dwarf's ear.
"Heh? What's that?" said the Dwarf.
"Two strangers, my Lord," said the Owl.
"Rangers! What d'ye mean?" said the Dwarf. "I see two uncommonly grubby man-cubs. What do they want?"
"My name's Jill," said Jill, pressing forward. She was very eager to explain the important business on which they had come.
"The girl's called Jill," said the Owl, as loud as it could.
"What's that?" said the Dwarf. "The girls are all killed! I don't believe a word of it. What girls? Who killed 'em?"
"Only one girl, my Lord," said the Owl. "Her name is Jill."
"Speak up, speak up," said the Dwarf. "Don't stand there buzzing and twittering in my ear. Who's been killed?"
"Nobody's been killed," hooted the Owl.
"Who?"
"NOBODY."
"All right, all right. You needn't shout. I'm not so deaf as all that. What do you mean by coming here to tell me that nobody's been killed? Why should anyone have been killed?"
"Better tell him I'm Eustace," said Scrubb.
"The boy's Eustace, my Lord," hooted the Owl as loud as it could.
"Useless?" said the Dwarf irritably. "I dare say he is. Is that any reason for bringing him to court? Hey?"
"Not useless," said the Owl. "EUSTACE."
"Used to it, is he? I don't know what you're talking about, I'm sure. I'll tell you what it is, Master Glimfeather; when I was a young Dwarf there used to be talking beasts and birds in this country who really could talk. There wasn't all this mumbling and muttering and whispering. It wouldn't have been tolerated for a moment, Sir. Urnus, my trumpet please- "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

32 " And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

33 " You do not see as quite as well as you think. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

34 " Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you? "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

35 " Puddleglum is the name. It doesn't matter if you forget it, I can always tell you again. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

36 " They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

37 " And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

38 " And the signs which you have learned here will not look at all as you expect them to look, when you meet them there. That is why it is so important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Remember the signs and believe the signs. Nothing else matters. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

39 " Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

40 " They were walking beside the stream and the Lion went before them: and he became so beautiful, and the music so despairing, that Jill did not know which of them it was that filled her eyes with tears.

Then Aslan stopped, and the children looked into the stream. And there, on the golden gravel of the bed of the stream, lay King Caspian, dead, with the water flowing over him like liquid glass. His long white beard swayed in it like water-weed. And all three stood and wept. Even the Lion wept: great lion-tears, each tear more precious than the Earth would be if it was a single solid diamond. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)