Quotes By Charles Lamb

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.

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.