That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

by C.S. Lewis

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

‘I suppose there are two views about everything,’ said Mark. ‘Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.

But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.’

Yes, we must all be guarded by equal rights from one another’s greed, because we are fallen.

‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.

‘Shakespeare never breaks the real laws of poetry,’ put in Dimble. ‘But by following them he breaks every now and then the little regularities which critics mistake for the real laws. Then the little critics call it a “licence”. But there’s nothing licentious about it to Shakespeare.’