"The drinking man is never less himself than……" — Charles Lamb

"The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals."

— Charles Lamb

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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb has 192 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.
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.
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another…

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The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,… — David Bailey
A drink a day keeps the shrink away. — Edward Abbey
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up… — Roseanne Barr
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me… — James M. Barrie
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to… — Dave Barry
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. — John Barrymore
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. — James Beard
I am a drinker with writing problems. — Brendan Behan
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. — Robert Benchley

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