"A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in…" — Charles Lamb

"A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature."

— Charles Lamb

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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb

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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing…
Mother's love grows by giving.
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in…
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and…
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody…
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
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