Quotes by Charles Lamb
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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 superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
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.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
The vices of some men are magnificent.
Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Lawyers I suppose were children once.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...
