Words matter. These are the best Charles Lamb Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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.
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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.
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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.
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.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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.
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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.
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
I could never hate anyone I knew.
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
