Quotes By Charles Lamb

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

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.

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

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.

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

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

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

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

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

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

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.