C. S. Lewis Quotes on Behavior
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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'A few months ago they [the Duffers] were all for washing up the plates and knives before dinner: they said it saved time afterwards. I've caught them planting boiled potatoes to save cooking them when they were dug up. One day the cat got into the dairy and twenty of them were at work moving all the milk out; no one thought of moving the cat.' (ch. 11)
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It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.