The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try! — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.” — Charles Lamb Copy Share
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
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