C. S. Lewis Quotes About Honesty

• Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

  C. S. Lewis

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

• It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Honesty, Suffering

• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Honesty, Hypocrite

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

• Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

  C. S. Lewis

  Senior, Honesty, Disappointment

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