Charles Lamb

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

— Charles Lamb

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

— Charles Lamb

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

— Charles Lamb

Books which are no books.

— Charles Lamb

Mother's love grows by giving.

— Charles Lamb

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

— Charles Lamb

A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

— Charles Lamb

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

— Charles Lamb

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

— Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

— Charles Lamb

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

— Charles Lamb

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

— Charles Lamb

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

— Charles Lamb

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

— Charles Lamb

Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have,…

— Charles Lamb

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

— Charles Lamb

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday,…

— Charles Lamb

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

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher…

— Charles Lamb

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the…

— Charles Lamb

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more…

— Charles Lamb

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

— Charles Lamb

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken…

— Charles Lamb

Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow…

— Charles Lamb

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of…

— Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,…

— Charles Lamb

“Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find…

— Charles Lamb

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of…

— Charles Lamb

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to…

— Charles Lamb

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that…

— Charles Lamb

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

— Charles Lamb

Half as sober as a judge.

— Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal.

— Charles Lamb

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

— Charles Lamb

You look wise, pray correct that error.

— Charles Lamb

“Time partially reconciles us to anything.”

— Charles Lamb

By myself walking, To myself talking.

— Charles Lamb

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb