Quotes By Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

It is good to love the unknown.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

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