Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.
Found 34 thoughts of Charles Lamb
Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lamb
The greatest joy I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found by accident.
Charles Lamb
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
Charles Lamb
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
Charles Lamb
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
Charles Lamb
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Charles Lamb
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Charles Lamb
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
Charles Lamb
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Charles Lamb
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles Lamb
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Charles Lamb
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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