Charles Lamb Quotes

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,...

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous...

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed ou...

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.

The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if ne...

For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in de...

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in chil...

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident...

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning t...

Books think for me.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings ...

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an ac...

If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Man is a gaming animal.

Neat not gaudy.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the r...

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as...