All Charles Lamb Quotes
- Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. Anything Awful
- Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Blessed
- A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to… Bound
- Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. Asparagus
- Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. Among
- Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. Cards
- For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. Die
- It is good to love the unknown. Funny
- Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. Children
- Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. Always Excite
- Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Chiefly
- Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer… Book
- She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. Afterwards
- The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the… According
- The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Dull
- The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. Choosing
- The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Absolute
- A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots,… Been
- I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Book
- I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me. Book
- Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know. Attitude
- Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with… Been
- Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. All
- There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and… Absolutely
- Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. All