"The man must have a rare recipe for……" — Charles Lamb
"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb has 192 quotes on this site.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing…
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in…
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and…
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody…
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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More Dull Quotes
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
— John James Audubon
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you…
— William Bernbach
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I…
— Chris Brown
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
— Pearl S. Buck
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
— Charles Bukowski
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that…
— Barbara Bush
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The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
— Sid Caesar
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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