Quote Thread

[B1-66ER]

If anyone comes across a good quote or something that a charater said, post it here. Here's my first one that I like a lot:

SPOILER WARNING: This thread will contain many quotes possibly spoiling a book that you haven't read yet.









"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice." - Uncle Andrew (from The Magician's Nephew)

[B1-66ER]

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.

Found in The Magician's Nephew written on the "Enchanted Square Pillar"

[B1-66ER]

"Magic," whispered Digory. "Can't you feel it?"

(from The Magician's Nephew)

[Y. Fish]

My favorite quote is from Puddleglum in the Silver Chair:

"We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if ther isn't any Narnia. ...We'll be leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland. Not that out lives will be very long, I should think; but that's a small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say."

When the world seems hopeless, this cheers me up a bit.

[Ramandu]

I don't know if this is my favorite quote, but it is a good one from MN.

"I'm sure Aslan would have, if you'd asked him," said Fledge.
"Wouldn't he know without being asked?" said Polly.
"I've no doubt he would," said the Horse (still with his mouth full). "But I've a sort of idea he likes to be asked."

This next quote is probably my favorite one. It's from VDT.

"But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there." ~Aslan

[faeriechylde]

I'm not sure I have a favorite quote, but this one expresses my desire to discover new worlds. (And my disdain of modern schooling... <_< )

"But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds--all over the place, just round the corner--like that?"

"Nothing is more probable," said the Professor [...] "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools."

[B1-66ER]

all of those are really great, i really like it when it gets pretty serious and you just stop to think about something for a moment

[Y. Fish]

I thought of another one, from The Last Battle-- where Emeth the Calormen is talking about his meeting with Aslan.

"Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of all honor) will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him. ... But the Glorious One bent down his golden head and touched my forehead with his tongue and said, Son, thou art welcome. But I said, Alas, Lord, I am no son of thine but a servant of Tash. He answered, Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me."

sorry I like such long quotes :P

[May Lafay]

Here's my favorite quote:

"I wish-I wish-I wish I could have lived in the Old Days," said Caspian from the book Prince Caspian

[Between_the_Worlds]

This is my favorite part in (probably) the whole series...it makes me want to scream, cry, laugh, dance, and run a thousand miles all at once. It isn't really a quote, but I love it. :) SPOILER

"And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story with no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

*screams, cries, laughs, and dances*

I TOLD YOU I WOULD!

[Culfintariél]

Hey, B_T_W...that is like the BEST quote! That one gives me goosebumps every time I read it! LOL!

Culfintariél

ps. I'll put some of my favs in later

[Lunis]

Yes, these are all great qoutes, thanks for sharing them. :)

Here's one of my favorite. It's when Prince Caspian has just thrown a fit about Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and Reepicheep going to the World's end with out him.

"But when the others rejoined him a little later they found him changed; he was white and there were tears in his eyes. It is no good, he said. I might as well have behaved decently for all the good I did with my temper and swagger. Aslan has spoken to me." ..... The Chronicles of Narnia have taught me a lot, and this passage taught me that anger about not getting my own way (etc.) is a waste of energy. Keep cool (and Aslan will always be around to help you do so). ;)

[faeriechylde]

:o Oooooooohhhhhh........
I always wondered what inspired you to be the epitomy of cool B)
Don't you think you go a bit overboard with it sometimes, though? I mean, it's cool to be cool, but don't freeze people out, girl. :D
Anyway, here's another one of my favorite quotes:
Aslan to Shasta in HHB:
"Child, I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no-one any story but his own."

[dawntreader77]

my fav. quote is probably:
'' wrong will be right when aslan comes in sight
at the end of his roar sorrows will be no more
when he bares his teeth, winter has met its death
and when he shakes his main we shall have spring again''
-''old rhyme in these parts''
this is said by mrs. beaver in l.w.w. :D

[Dragon]

I also really liked that quote by Puddleglum about the "make-believe" world, and of course the last paragraph of the Last Battle which is about my favorite.

...but some of these made me stop and think for a while:

(about the duffers)
One day the cat got into the dairy and twenty of them were at work moving all the milk out; no one thought of moving the cat.

I see that as a great parable. Trying to remove yourself away from sin instead of trying to move sin away from yourself.

Then there's in Prince Caspian:
"Aslan, said Lucy, "you're bigger."
"That is because you are older, little one," answered he.
"Not because you are?"
"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."

...and the passage with Eustace:
"'You will have to let me undress you,' [said Aslan.]...
"The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I've ever felt. The only thing that made me able to bear it was just the pleasure of feeling the stuff peel off."

Such great imagery.

[cslouis]

"There is no other stream" - Aslan

[Dead Rain]

I'm game if you are--Polly(Magician's Nephew)
and there was one thing that Peter said.... but that might spoil the book(s) for those who have not read. and there was somethign that.....

[Between_the_Worlds]

Another one of my all time fav quotes is when Digory is telling Aslan about his mother, and Dig starts to sniffle. I can't remember it exactly but it says that Digory was at that point only looking at Aslan's feet, but then he looked up and saw that Aslan was crying, big huge tears. And then Aslan said, "I have known great sorrow."

That just tore me up, it's such a small sentence, but it carries a lot of emotion!

[GrayCloak]

This one has always been one of my favorites....

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isin't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."

[Jene Sai]

It has been quite a while since I read the books, but....

In LW&W I vividly remember Aslan scolding Peter for not remembering to clean his sword after the battle.

Even as a child it struck me how beautifully this illustrated the value of a clean conscience.

Maybe I am reading too much into it....

... Anyone else have an interpretation?

[cslouis]

That is very insightful. Yes, I would say that is true... Sort of like pennance.

[Dragon]

I always read into the washing the sword like washing other people's feet. Like how Jesus says when a man enters a house he needn't wash his whole body but just his feet. (paraphrased) It's shaking the dust of the world from us so we can appear clean before God and before each other.

I find the washing of the sword another means to demonstrate this.

[cslouis]

Yes. The feet are also the most undesired place to touch amongst people. So the act of washing feet is to really subjegate yourself in the Old Book. So that he washed feet and also let a woman annoint his feet is really something strange and new.

[I'mbigger/you'reolder]

I think that I've said this once or twice already, but here's my favorite quote, and the reason of my SN.
"Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger."
"That is because you are older, little one." Answered he.
"Not because you are?"
"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger." [Prince Caspian]
That's one of the coolest things I'd ever read in my life. I found that it is so true in our relationships with God.
My second favorite would have to be:
"...[basically the paragraph preceding]But as soon as I looked at myself in the water, I knew it had been no good. Then the lion said--but I don't know if it spoke--You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat on my back and let him do it....[basically the next paragraph] It hurts like billy-oh, but it is such fun seeing it coming away." [The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"]

[cslouis]

I haven't read that one yet. Prince Caspian. That is a great set of quotations. I think that this reflects one of the greatest truisms that I have learned which is one experiences the responsibiltiy of God only to the extent that one is truly ready. God expands to fill your cup.

[Warrior-Poet51088]

Originally posted by Jene Sai@Sep 27 2004, 10:48 PM
In LW&W I vividly remember Aslan scolding Peter for not remembering to clean his sword after the battle.

Even as a child it struck me how beautifully this illustrated the value of a clean conscience.
I always thought that was just something practical that needed to be done to be ready for the next battle-- ya know, so the sword wouldn't rust. Maybe it's something like, "if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrigtheousness." (1 John 5:9)
I don't know about y'all, but as soon as I don't take the time to confess a given sin, I get dragged down by more and more sins.
This is an excellent passage.

And the one that was quoted earlier (Digory in front of Aslan, and Aslan crying)---that's extremely emotional. It's hard for me to complain if I've been thinking about all Christ went through.

[Warrior-Poet51088]

The verse I quoted is actually 1 John 1:9, not 5:9. My bad.

[eeyorebrat]

"There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn't tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth." - The Professor in LWW

"My dear young lady," said the Professor..."there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying."
"What's that?' said Susan.
"We might all try minding our own business." said he. And that was the end of that conversation. - LWW

The Professor was defiinitely my favorite in LWW, I loved his way with words.

"Got to start by finding it, have we?" answered Puddleglum. "Not allowed to start by looking for it I suppose?" - SC

"Well, I wouldn't have dreamt her doing that. Even though I am a good-looking chap." - Puddleglum in SC

Puddleglum was my other favorite, he's so gloomy.

[Rhindon]

My favorite is when Digory asks Aslan if he has something that will heal his mother.

Up until then Digory has been looking at the lion's great feet and the huge claws on them. Now in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own. And wonder of wonders great shining tears stood in the lion's eyes. They were such big bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt the lion must really be sorrier about his mother than he was himself.

"My son... My son... I know. Grief is great. Only you and I know that yet. Let us be good to one another."

[Valiant4ever]

I haven't posted many things, but if you've read any of them you probably already know how much i luv mystical, enchanting things, for instance, dryads. Thats why i luv this part in PC.

"Oh trees, trees, trees" said Lucy "oh trees, wake, wake, wake. Don't you remember it?.Don't you remember me? Dryads and Hamadryads, come out, come to me!"
Though there was not a break of wind they all stirred about her. The rustling noise of the leaves was almost words.

I just really love that!..it reminds me of angels..lol..i know you guys probably think that sounds crazy..lol...but i think its enchanting.....

[eeyorebrat]

I don't think your crazy. I think it sounds enchanting too, I've always liked Dryads.

[Valiant4ever]

Thats so kewl, eyorebrat..and lol..i like your username. I use to dream about being a dryad whenever i was a little girl, but now at the age of fifteen, i still dream..lol...

[Dead Rain]

just wondering, v4ever, but why do you always say "lol" at radom momments in time?

I also like where peter yells at edmund for lying about being in narnia before.

[cslouis]

Originally posted by Dead Rain@Nov 3 2004, 07:54 PM
just wondering, v4ever, but why do you always say "lol" at radom momments in time?
lol means "laughing out loud" so I think we have ourself someone who likes to laugh a lot.

[Dead Rain]

cslouis, i know what "lol" stands for and means. i use it too. all the time actually. mostly in Land of the Duffers, though.
i was asking v4e why she(?) uses it so much. that's all.

[Amanda]

This has always been my favorite quote from the CoN;
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, and that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest begger, and shame enough to bow the head of the greatest emperor on on earth. Be Content."

Wow.

[Arathornia of Rivendell]

"Logic! Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"

P: We won't be coming back to Narnia.
L: What? Why not?
P: Aslan says we're too old to come back. But he said we would know him, even in back in Our World. (this is a paraphrase, i can't remember the exact words)

"You were only an ass, but I was a traitor." (that word means the same as donkey: didn't mean to offend anyone)

"The hour has come!"

"Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter East."

A: And what have your people done?
Pe: Sire, if our leader must go without a tail, then we will all remove ours as well. None in our colony must own something deprived of the Head Mouse.
A: Ah! You have won me over. You shall have back your tail, Reepicheep; no because of your honor, but because of the devotion of your people.



Those are my faves: I'll be back with more later. :D

[whirl]

I think my absolute favourite is:

“But,” said Eustace, looking at Aslan. “Hasn`t he - er - died?”
“Yes,” said the Lion in a very quit voice, almost (Jill thought) as if he were laughing. “He has died. Most people have, you know. Even I have. ...” THE SILVER CHAIR - chapter 16 the healing of harms, p. 188 (ch.16: p.180-191)

And some more:

“Oh,” said Caspian. “I see what`s bothering you. You think I`m a ghost, or some nonsense. But don`t you see? I would be that if I appeared in Narnia now: because I don`t belong there any more. But one can`t be a ghost in one`s own country. I might be a ghost if I got into your world. I don`t know. But suppose it isn`t your`s either, now you`re here.” THE SILVER CHAIR - chapter 16 the healing of harms, p. 188-189 (ch.16: p.180-191)


“But what are we to do?” said Susan. ...
“My dear young lady,” said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp expression at both of them,
“there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.”
“What`s that?” said Susan.
“We might all try minding our own business,” said he.
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE - chapter 5 back on this side of the door, p.49-50 (ch.5: p.44-52)


“Child,” said the Voice, “I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.” THE HORSE AND HIS BOY - chapter 11 the unwelcome fellow traveler, p. 130 (ch.11: p.121-131)

“To know what would have happened, child?” said Aslan. “No. Nobody is ever told that.”
“Oh dear,” said Lucy.
“But anyone can find out what will happen, “ said Aslan. If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me - what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.”
“Do you mean that is what you want me to do?” gasped Lucy.
“Yes, little one,” said Aslan.
“Will the others see you too?” asked Lucy
“Certainly not at first,” said Aslan. “Later on, it depends.” ...
“Now, child,” said Aslan, when they had left the trees behind them, “I will wait here. Go and wake the others and tell them to follow. If they will not, then you at least must follow me alone.” PRINCE CASPIAN

“Oh dear,” said Lucy. “Have I spoiled everything? Do you mean we would have gone on being friends if it hadn`t been for this - and been really great friends - all our lives perhaps - and now we never shall.”
“Child,” said Aslan, “did I not explain to you once before that no one is ever told what would have happened?” THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER - chapter 10. The Magician`s Book, p. 123 (ch.10: 112-124)


“ Logic!” said the Professor half to himself. “Why don`t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn't tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE - chapter 5 back on this side of the door, p.47-48 (ch.5: p.44-52)

“Oh, whatever will become of us?” said Pole despairingly.
“Now don`t you let your spirits down, Pole,” said the Marsh-wiggle. “There`s one thing you`ve got to remember. We`re back in the right lines. We were to go under the Ruined City, and we are under it. We`re following the instructions again.” THE SILVER CHAIR - chapter 10 travels without the sun, p.120 (ch.10: 114-125)


As they cicled round they were all diligently throwing snowballs. ...They were throwing them through the dance in such perfect time with the music and with such perfect aim that if all the dancers were in exactly the right moments, no one would be hit. This is called the Great Snow Dance and it is done every year in Narnia on the first moonlit night when there is snow on the ground. Of course it is a kind of game as well as a dance, because every now and then some dancer will be the least little bit wrong and get a snowball in the face, and then everyone laughs. But a good team of dancers, Dwarfs, and musicians will keep it up for hours without a single hit. On fine nights when the cold and the drum-taps, and the hooting of the owls, and the moonlight, have got into their wild, woodland blood and made it even wilder, they will dance till daybreak. THE SILVER CHAIR - chapter 15 the dissapearance of Jill, p.172-173 (ch.15: 170-179)

and lol:
“I suppose the sewing machine`s too heavy to bring?”
“Yes. It is,” said Mr Beaver. !a great deal too heavy. And you don`t think you`ll be able to use it while we`re be able to use it while we`re on the run, I suppose?”
“I can`t abide the thought of that Witch fiddling with it,” said Mrs Beaver, “and breaking it or stealing it, as likely as not.”
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE - chapter 10 the spell begins to break, p. 94-95 (ch.10: 93-101)

and :)



i really like it when it gets pretty serious and you just stop to think about something for a moment







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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis


The idea of a (-> one of the) great moral teacher(s) saying what Christ said is out of the question. There is no halfway house and there is no parallel in other religions. He produced mainly three effects-hatred-terror-adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
"I am begotten of the One God, before Abraham was, I am," and remember what the words "I am" were in Hebrew. They were the name of God, which must not be spoken by any human being, the name which it was death to utter. C.S. Lewis (What are we to make of Jesus Christ? in God in the dock)

There seems to be a general agreement that in the teaching of this Man and of His immediate followers, moral truth is exhibited at its purest and best. It is not sloppy idealism, it is full of wisdom and shrewdness. The whole thing is realistic, fresh to the highest degree, the product of a sane mind. C.S. Lewis (What are we to make of Jesus Christ? in God in the dock)

Luke 24
32 And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, as he opened the scriptures to us?

[VeritasRatioque3D]

"He is not a tame lion."

I know this seems like an obvious one, especially since it is a theme that runs throughout the entire series, but the implications of it are amazing.

The same lion who had a friendly tussle with Susan and Lucy in LWW was the one who sang Narnia into existence and later destroyed the shadow we knew as Narnia. WOW!

[littlelucy]

This has always been my favorite quote from the CoN;
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, and that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest begger, and shame enough to bow the head of the greatest emperor on on earth. Be Content."

Wow.


That one really is awesome! *sigh* i've got to read these books again. i didn't retain enough the first two times, but then there's just so much to retain! :o

[Gibby]

"The others all voted for going on in the hopes of finding land. I felt it my duty to point out that we didn't know there was any land ahead and tried to get them to see the dangers of wishful thinking. Instead of producing a better plan they had the cheek to ask me what I proposed. So I just explained coolly and quietly that I had been kidnapped and brought away on this idiotic voyage without my consent and it was hardly my business to get them out of their scrape"
- Eustace Clarence Scrubb

Perspectives of a wonderful journey from sourpuss. This to me is a warning against grumbling and complaining. His journal entries made me laugh, that's why I enjoyed them so much.

[inkspot]

LOL! I thought so, too -- Eustace's journal just pointed up what a twit he was! Sometimes I wonder, if someone reads my journal a hundred years from now, if they will think what a twit I must have been! :p

[Gibby]

Eustace's journal reminds me of listening to certain "intellectuals" talk about how rediculous the concept of faith and God is. It shows us all how miserable this outlook can be, also how miserable we can be when we start to complain as well.

[Aslan the Wise one]

Mmm, I have so many that i love i can't deside but if i think of one i well post it(LOL).

[legolas]

for me... um... well... the only lines i can remember from LWW are the ones from the play i did... hmmm....

[Tarkheena_Finduilas22]

When you want to be typicaly english, you pretend to be very hospitable and honest, and hearty. When you want to be typicaly irish, you pretend to be very witty and dashing and fanciful... But the typical Scotch attitude consists not in being loud or quiet, or merry or sad, but in just being, SCOTCH.
sorry if this is unacceptable to other people but C.S. Lewis said it, not me, and I am particularly partial to scotch people mostly cus I am one.

[inkspot]

I like it, Tarkheena.

I was not aware that "Scotch" applied to people, I thought it was only a drink. I thought the proper adjective was "Scottish," but if Lewis said it, it must be right.

[tumnus]

you're right there Inkspot

Scotch is a drink, and also mist - as in 'Scotch Mist' something which does not exist

also hopscotch - a chidren's playground game
i think 'scotch' also has some meaning to do with marking in games, not sure

butterscotch is a caramalised sugar and butter mixture, making a hard boiled sweet

the Scots do not like being referred to as the Scotch any more than Americans like being called Yanks, Brits Pommies or Limeys - not pc

nor is reffering to them as 'the Scottish' - it is strictly an adjective

btw a 'Scottische' (spelling?) is a dance as well

tumnus

edit:

it seems likely that the giants in con indicate the Scots, ie tall people living in the north

[waterhogboy]

Theres a place called Scotch Corner in England?!?

[Aslan the Wise one]

I have many Fav. Quites but one of my all time Favs. Is this....

But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.-Aslan

[sukapesta]

the one about aslan shedding a tear for diggory and her mother made me cry the first time i read it... ditto the one about humans being descendants of adam and eve and what a great honor it is...

but one quote i also really like is this one, from the Horse and His Boy:

"You're majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins."
"It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

This made me love and identify with Edmund even more! Another favorite of mine, from the Last Battle:

"Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek."

Beautiful words from Aslan. I love the role Emeth plays in the book.

[jen15]

"once a king in Narnia, always a king in Narnia"

from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

[Aslan'sgirl]

I thought one of the best quotes was in the Last Battle Chapter 9: The Great Meeting on Stable Hill, page 111 on the night before the battle:
"Kiss me,Jewel," he said. For certainly this is our last night on earth. And if I ever offended against you in any matter great or small, forgive me now",
"Dear King," said the Unicorn, "I could almost wish you had, so that I might forgive it. Farewell. We have known great joys together. If Aslan gave me my choice I would choose no other life than the life I hsve had and no other death than the one we go to."

I just loved that part. And in page 129, last paragraph when Tirian announces:
"Here stand I,Tirian of Narnia, in Aslan's name, to prove with my body that Tash is a foul fiend, the Ape a manifold traitor, and these Calormenes worthy of death. To my side, all true Narnians. Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all one by one?"

That was just so amazing!

[Malacandra]

I like it, Tarkheena.

I was not aware that "Scotch" applied to people, I thought it was only a drink. I thought the proper adjective was "Scottish," but if Lewis said it, it must be right.

"Scotch" was applicable to people at least until the 1950s, although the Scots have never cared for it AFAIK - but then, it's an English term for them. You can find a usage of the word in Murder On The Orient Express if you really have far too much time on your hands. I'd never use the expression these days unless I was deliberately trying to be annoying, which of course I'd never do. ::makes Bambi eyes::

[majorbase2]

Its not one quote, but I LOVE the conversation between Aslan and Jill when Jill first gets into Narnia and sees Aslan by the stream.

[glamel]

don't know if this has been posted but here it is:

Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in any case, the made - up things seem a good deal more important then the real ones.
-Puddleglum (silver chair)

Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
-Aslan (last battle)

[~Grateful * Surrender~]

these are all just quotes that I picked up her eand there that I really like

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Ok I'll stop...for now

[glamel]

only quotes from teh Narnia book.:D

[Redeemed]

from Prince Caspian (sorry if these quotes have already been mentioned):
But for the movement of his tail he might have been a stone lion, but Lucy never thought of that. She never stopped to think whether he was a friendly lion or not. She rushed to him. She felt her heart would burst if she lost a moment. And the next thing she knew she was kissing him and putting her arms as far round his neck as she could and burying her face in the beautiful rich silkiness of his mane.
"Aslan, Aslan. Dear Aslan," sobbed Lucy. "At last."

and-

"What!" said Edmund. "Is there a way into Aslan's country from our world too?"
"There is a way into my country from all the worlds," said the Lamb; but as he spoke, his snowy white flushed into tawny gold and his size changed and he was Aslan himself, towering above them and scattering light from his mane.
"Oh, Aslan," said Lucy. "Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?"
"I shall be telling you all the time," said Aslan. "But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a great river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder..."

[Crimson]

I like...

Do you know why your here faun?-jadis
Because i believe in a free narnia-tumnus
and..........
Once a king or queen of narnia always a king or queen
and the qoute about aslan in my siggy

[she-elfwarrior19]

Some Quotes=
"It is not easy to draw one's sword when one is swinging round in the air by one's tail, but he did. [Sir Reepicheep, Chief of the Talking Mice of Narnia]"

Puddleglum] said. "Though when I say good I don't mean it won't probably turn to rain or it might be snow, or fog, or thunder. You didn't get any sleep, I dare say."

Kiss me, Jewel," he said. "For certainly this is our last night on earth. And if ever I offended against you in any matter great or small, forgive me now." Tirian

Jewel-"Dear King," said the Unicorn, "I almost wish you had, so that I might forgive it. Farewell. We have known great joys together. If Aslan gave me my choice I would choose no other life than the life I have had and no other death than the one we go to."

Tirian-"So," said the King, after a long silence, "Narnia is no more."

Theres a few.

[jesus_narnia_freak7]

i dont know if this is on here already but i like
this i going to be exciting enough without pretending-Peter in LWW
and
Then let us take the adventure tha shall fall to us-susan in LWW

[Narborg]

Here are some of mine

" Your Majesty promed," said Reepicheep, " to be a good lord to the talking Beasts of Narnia.'
"taking beasts, yes," Siad Capian. "I said nothing about beasts who never stop talking."

" Oh, I don't mind two, not when they're little ones," said Fledge. "Baut I hope the Elepant dosent want to came."


...Please, Houre. I dont knoe your name
" Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoonhy-hah." said the house.

[LifeMaiden]

I guess one of my favorite quotes came at the ending of THE LAST BATTLE, and I'm sure a lot of people loved what Aslan said:

The term is over, the holidays have begun. The dream is ended, this is the morning.

[office]

Here is a good quote,''Draw your sword and fight poltroon or I`l beat you with thae flat''.

[Narborg]

Here is a good quote,''Draw your sword and fight poltroon or I`l beat you with thae flat''.


ha??? thats not from the books......

[~Lava~]

Yes it is Narborg Reep says it to Eustace.
My favorite is from LB.

"And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them."

I also like "Murders, fascists, lions. It isn't fair." from SC

[Crimson]

I like,

"So Narnia is no more."-Tirian

and I love this poem:
Wrong will be right when Aslan comes in sight.
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more.
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death.
And when he shakes his Mane, we shall have spring again.

:D

[MrBob]

Hey, the first quotes of the new year!

I love the arguments. Yes, I know they have no greater meaning but they do show the kids being kids.

Polly: "How exactly like a man!...And don't say I'm just being a woman, or you'll be a beastly copy-cat."
Digory: "I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman"
Polly: Oh, I'm a kid, am I?...Well you needn't be bothered by having a kid with you any longer then. I'm off. I've had enough of this place. And I've had enough of you too--you beastly, stuck-up, obstinate pig!"

Eustace: "Still playing your old game?"
Edmund: "You're not wanted here."
Eustace: "I'm trying to think of a limerick...Something like this:"
Some kids who played games about Narnia
Got gradually balmier and balmier--
Lucy: "Well Narnia and balmier don't rhyme to begin with."
Eustace: It's an assonance."
Edmund: "Don't ask him what an assy-thingummy is...He's only longing to be asked. Say nothing and perhaps he'll go away."

Jill: "If only you'd listened to me when I tried to tell you, we'd be all right."
Eustace: "Yes, and if you hadn't played the fool on the edge of the cliff and jolly near murdred me--all right, I said murder, and I'll say it again as often as I like, so keep your hair on--we'd have come together and both known what to do."

MrBob

[subjectofthehighking]

Thought I'd get this going again, though a lot of quotes might be taken up.

However, this one wasn't used:

"Once there was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." VDT

I'm afraid I don't have a copy of SC at the moment, so this might not be quite right, but:

"Many have come to the pale beaches, and few-
"few return to the sunlit lands, you needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea aren't you?" Puddleglum, SC

"Welcome in the Lion's name. Come further up and further in." Reepicheep, LB I absolutely love this quote because it signifies the meeting again of one of the greatest characters of Narnia.

Another quote, which I cannot remember perfectly, forgive me, is Reepicheep's lecture to Caspian in VDT about his duty as king of Narnia and how he cannot go wherever he pleases if it breaks faith with his subjects.

[KathrynJanewayChakotay]

I like the last few quotes in the last battle

I see now the garden is like the stable Its is far bigger on the inside then the outside

of course daugther of eve the futher up and furhter in your go the bigger everyhing gets it large on the inside then the outside

I see this is still Narnia and more real and more beatiful then the narnia ouside the stable door I see world within world narnia in narnia

No good thing is destroyed

It shows me that this world is bigger then we know and it gives us hope that nothing good will be destoryed and we have somthing to look forward to we do not see the big picture right now but we will soon and the clearer things become to us and God is bigger to us and more amzing then we know

[Cymro, Knight of Narnia]

"Daughter of Eve," said Aslan in a graver voice, "others also are at the point of death. Must more people die for Edmund?"

A very solemn quote with a lot of meaning.

[Elentari]

Another quote, which I cannot remember perfectly, forgive me, is Reepicheep's lecture to Caspian in VDT about his duty as king of Narnia and how he cannot go wherever he pleases if it breaks faith with his subjects.

"If it please your Majesty, we mean shall not. You are the King of Narnia. You break faith with all your subjects, and especially Trumpkin, if you do not return. You shall not please yourself with adventures as if you were a private person. And if your Majesty will not hear reason it will be the truest loyalty of every man on board to follow me in disarming and binding you until you come to your senses."

I like that one too. :) My favorite line though is from the Professor. This particular quote is from The Last Battle.

"It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!" :D

[ndfan1993]

Ah, such good quotes.

But my favorite is the one spoken by Puddleglum by far, the one while he and the children are underground. I read it here and there just to cheer me up a bit. It certanly does the job lol.

[KathrynJanewayChakotay]

Another one is when Lucy ins in the woods with Aslan in the book Prince Caspian

Would everything would have turned out all right i mean if i would have came back

My Child to tell you what could have been you will never know but we acn always know what will happen are you brave now

Aslan breathes on her

"Yes i am Aslan"

"Now your a lioness all of Narnia will be renewed

That quote makes me cry every time i read it or hear it it shows how Lucy gets stronger That we can't change the past we just have to look forward to the future and not look behind.

[~Lava~]

Undoubtably my favorite quote in the whole series is in my banner: when they are in the darkness surrounding the Island Where Dreams Come True and Lucy prays. The Albatross appears and whispers to her "Courage, Dear heart."

That followed by "Murders, facists, Lions; it isn't fair"

[elsamere]

I love in the movie when Peter asks Oreius "are you with me" and Oreius says "to the death". That quote is so cool.

[~Valiant]

"Courage, dear heart." (Aslan to Lucy.)

"Oh, bother, I left my new torch in Narnia."

Pretty much any of Puddleglum's pessimistic quotes.

When Lucy tries to wake up the trees.

When Jill is floating on the cloud, and she's wondering if anyone's ever done it before, and then thinks something along the lines of "Oh, bother, Scrubb probably has."

I love when Aslan creates Narnia, that's great, too...

[crazycigirl]

If one could run without getting tired, I don't think one would often want to do anything else. ~The Last Battle

I very faintly experienced that once when I was around six, it was a wonderful feeling. :)