Men Quotes by Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

— Charles Lamb

The vices of some men are magnificent.

— Charles Lamb

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

— Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal.

— Charles Lamb

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

— Charles Lamb

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

— Charles Lamb

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

— Charles Lamb

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting…

— Charles Lamb

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

— Charles Lamb

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with…

— Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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

— 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

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received…

— Charles Lamb

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

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so…

— Charles Lamb

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

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest,…

— Charles Lamb

A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would…

— 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

Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will…

— Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to…

— Charles Lamb

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance…

— Charles Lamb

It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey…

— Charles Lamb

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

— Charles Lamb

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the…

— Charles Lamb

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

— Charles Lamb

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

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with…

— Charles Lamb

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

— Charles Lamb

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

— Charles Lamb

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his…

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with…

— Charles Lamb