Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

— 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

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

— Charles Lamb

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.

— Charles Lamb

You look wise, pray correct that error.

— Charles Lamb

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had…

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul…

— 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

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are…

— Charles Lamb

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

— Charles Lamb

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

— Charles Lamb

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

— Charles Lamb

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

— Charles Lamb

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

— Charles Lamb

Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to…

— Charles Lamb

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

— Charles Lamb

A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of…

— 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

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

— 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