"I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned,..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.”

“The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.”

“I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me.”

“I'm not a macroeconomics person.”

“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”

“In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”