Puddleglum Quotes

• Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs   Winter   Journey  

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• 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 there isn't any Narnia.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Love   Sides   Narnia  

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.132, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

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  Jane Yolen

  Children   Book   Dark  

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• Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Dream   Stars   Real  

  "The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

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• Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Views   Hands   Serious  

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.103, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

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  C. S. Lewis

  Land   Ideas   Return  

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• Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Kings   Cutting   Mind  

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.112, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Eels   Pie   Frogs  

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.56, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Names   Matter   Forget  

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.51, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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