"Is there a difference between a man..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
More by C S Lewis
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
“I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.”
“No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
More on Honesty
“I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.”
“When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.”
“A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.”
More on Morality
“Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.”
“Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.”
“Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.”