The Wisdom of Narnia

“Now hand up the water,” said the first Mouse, “and I’ll wash the King’s face. There is blood on it.”

LB: 42–44

Free & Equal (#u62d10b99-ae65-5644-950f-51e430d44e8b)

“We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.”

—Bree the Horse

HHB: 32

Creativity (#u62d10b99-ae65-5644-950f-51e430d44e8b)

All this time the Lion’s song, and his stately prowl, to and fro, backward and forward, was going on…. When a line of dark firs sprang up on a ridge… [Polly] felt that they were connected with a series of deep, prolonged notes which the Lion had sung a second before. And when he burst into a rapid series of lighter notes she was not surprised to see primroses suddenly appearing in every direction. Thus…she felt quite certain that all the things were coming (as she said) “out of the Lion’s head.”

MN: 115

Cleverness/Clever Council (#u62d10b99-ae65-5644-950f-51e430d44e8b)

“Send Glenstorm, Sire. No one ever laughed at a Centaur.”

—Trufflehunter

PC: 178

“As we birds say, nests before eggs.”

HHB: 73–74

“See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.”

HHB: 65

“Easily in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot!”

—Sallowpad the Raven