All Charles Lamb Quotes
- Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. Less
- The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some… All
- Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Beauty
- How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty. Dimensions
- What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. Blank
- Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Charity
- Not if I know myself at all. All
- I am in love with the green earth. Earth
- Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Child
- In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. Better
- Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. Less
- Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Books
- The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility Inaudibility
- I love to lose myself in other men's minds. Lose
- The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident Accident
- Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door All
- When I consider how little of a rarity children arethat every street and blind alley swarms with themthat the poorest people commonly have them in… Alley