All Charles Lamb Quotes
- For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. Absent
- He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. Altogether
- He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. Adjunct
- He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Composition
- When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… Abundance
- Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease… Among
- Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. Apple
- Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? Destiny
- I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters. Affecting
- How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked! Funny
- Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick. Bad
- A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the… Author
- I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… Already Come
- The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. Doe
- How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the… Convalescence
- All people have their blind side-their superstitions. All
- You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own. Cast
- No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. Ever Regarded
- Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. Alone
- So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… Appetite
- Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. All
- Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. Beneath
- I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. All
- Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works. Best
- You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! Age