--- title: "15 Knows Quotes By Charles Lamb" description: "15 Knows quotes by Charles Lamb. Plus more from Charles Lamb and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/charles-lamb-1144_funny_not-if-i-know-myself-at-all-2969449_2969449.jpg" --- > [Not if I know myself at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/not-if-i-know-myself-at-all/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/charles-lamb-1144_funny_not-if-i-know-myself-at-all-2969449_2969449.jpg) > [Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg) > [Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/riddle-of-destiny-who-can-show-what-thy-short-visit-meant-or-know/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/charles-lamb-1144_destiny_riddle-of-destiny-who-can-show-what-thy_601425.jpg) > [I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetest-thing-in-nature-but-the/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/charles-lamb-1144_children_i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetes_2282923.jpg) > [ I hate a man who swallows \[his food\], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-hate-a-man-who-swallows-his-food-affecting-not-to-know-what-he-is/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14d/charles-lamb-1144_eating_i-hate-a-man-who-swallows-his-food-affec_1333604.jpg) > [The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/the-english-writer-charles-lamb-said-one-day-i-hate-that-man-but-you/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/charles-lamb-1144_courses_the-english-writer-charles-lamb-said-one_531180.jpg) > [I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetest-thing-in-nature-not-even/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/charles-lamb-1144_bears_i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetes_2514731.jpg) > [To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/to-sigh-yet-feel-no-pain-to-weep-yet-scarce-know-why-to-sport-an-hour/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/charles-lamb-1144_beauty_to-sigh-yet-feel-no-pain-to-weep-yet-sca_18957.jpg) > [The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/the-laws-of-pluto-s-kingdom-know-small-difference-between-king-and/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb3/charles-lamb-1144_boys_the-laws-of-pluto-s-kingdom-know-small-d_1275735.jpg) > [It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/it-is-rather-an-unpleasant-fact-that-the-ugliest-and-awkwardest-of/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f8/charles-lamb-1144_action_it-is-rather-an-unpleasant-fact-that-the_409208.jpg) > [I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-conceive-disgust-at-those-impertinent-and-misbecoming-familiarities/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/charles-lamb-1144_alive_i-conceive-disgust-at-those-impertinent_2095290.jpg) > [I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-am-accounted-by-some-people-as-a-good-man-how-cheap-that-character/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/charles-lamb-1144_borrow_i-am-accounted-by-some-people-as-a-good_304362.jpg) > [I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-grow-ominously-tired-of-official-confinement-thirty-years-have-i/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5c/charles-lamb-1144_air_i-grow-ominously-tired-of-official-confi_2866002.jpg) > [The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/the-pilasters-reaching-down-were-adorned-with-a-glistering-substance/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/charles-lamb-1144_candy_the-pilasters-reaching-down-were-adorned_297218.jpg) > [Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/surely-it-is-a-matter-of-joy-that-your-faith-in-jesus-has-been/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/376/charles-lamb-1144_bitterness_surely-it-is-a-matter-of-joy-that-your-f_2138095.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Charles Lamb > [Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/reader-if-you-are-gifted-with-nerves-like-mine-aspire-to-any/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/in-the-indications-of-female-poverty-there-can-be-no-disguise-no/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/to-sigh-yet-feel-no-pain-to-weep-yet-scarce-know-why-to-sport-an-hour/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-love-to-lose-myself-in-other-men-s-minds-when-i-am-not-walking-i-am/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/while-childhood-and-while-dreams-producing-childhood-shall-be-left/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/man-while-he-loves-is-never-quite-depraved/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/summer-as-my-friend-coleridge-waggishly-writes-has-set-in-with-its/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/here-cometh-april-again-and-as-far-as-i-can-see-the-world-hath-more/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/a-presentation-copy-is-a-copy-of-a-book-whoch-does-not-sell-sent-you/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-counsel-thee-shut-not-thy-heart-nor-thy-library/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/nothing-to-me-is-more-distasteful-than-that-entire-complacency-and/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/my-theory-is-to-enjoy-life-but-the-practice-is-against-it/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/all-all-are-gone-the-old-familiar-faces/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/those-evening-bells-those-evening-bells-how-many-a-tale-their-music/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/beholding-heaven-and-feeling-hell/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/charles-lamb/#itemlist", "name": "15 Knows Quotes By Charles Lamb", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Not if I know myself at all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/not-if-i-know-myself-at-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/charles-lamb-1144_funny_not-if-i-know-myself-at-all-2969449_2969449.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/charles-lamb-1144_funny_not-if-i-know-myself-at-all-2969449_2969449.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/charles-lamb-1144_funny_not-if-i-know-myself-at-all-2969449_2969449.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Not if I know myself at all.” — Charles Lamb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.” — Charles Lamb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/riddle-of-destiny-who-can-show-what-thy-short-visit-meant-or-know/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/charles-lamb-1144_destiny_riddle-of-destiny-who-can-show-what-thy_601425.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/charles-lamb-1144_destiny_riddle-of-destiny-who-can-show-what-thy_601425.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/charles-lamb-1144_destiny_riddle-of-destiny-who-can-show-what-thy_601425.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?” — Charles Lamb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetest-thing-in-nature-but-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/charles-lamb-1144_children_i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetes_2282923.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/charles-lamb-1144_children_i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetes_2282923.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/charles-lamb-1144_children_i-know-that-a-sweet-child-is-the-sweetes_2282923.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. 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The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. 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Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that \"such as he now is, I must shortly be.\" Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. 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How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-am-accounted-by-some-people-as-a-good-man-how-cheap-that-character/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/charles-lamb-1144_borrow_i-am-accounted-by-some-people-as-a-good_304362.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/charles-lamb-1144_borrow_i-am-accounted-by-some-people-as-a-good_304362.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/charles-lamb-1144_borrow_i-am-accounted-by-some-people-as-a-good_304362.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! 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