A bouquet

A selection of several favorite quotes:

I had a very pleasant evening, though...there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
-Jane Austen

Read not to contradict, but to weigh and consider.
-Sir Francis Bacon

I gave in, and admitted that God was God and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
-C.S. Lewis

...If you had gone to Mohammed and asked, 'Are you Allah?' he would have first rent his clothes and then cut your head off...
the idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question.
... You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon, or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
-C.S. Lewis

If music be the food of love, play on.
-William Shakespeare

In what other language to people play at a recital, and recite at a play?
-Richard Lederer, from "Crazy English"