Drs Quote by Charles Lamb

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

— Charles Lamb

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.

— Charles Lamb

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

— Charles Lamb

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

— Charles Lamb

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

— Charles Lamb

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

— Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

— Charles Lamb

A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning…

— Charles Lamb

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

— Charles Lamb

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…

— Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

— Charles Lamb