All Charles Lamb Quotes
- Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. Coleridge
- To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. Honey
- The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task… Affixed
- Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. Another Mountain
- Our spirits grow gray before our hairs. Enthusiasm
- Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely… Alas
- The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. All
- I could never hate anyone I knew. Anyone
- Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. Animal
- To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. Chain
- Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon. Break
- Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but… Antiquity
- Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart. Banish
- A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature. Inspirational
- The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of… Bells
- From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I… Bailiff
- How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! Dimension
- I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your… Accounted
- Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home. Begin
- Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in… Blast
- Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Agree
- Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. Blade
- When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. Heart
- And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon. Heart
- I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to… All