Quotes By Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

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.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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