Quotes By Charles Lamb

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.

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.

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

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

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.

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.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

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.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

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

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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

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

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

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.

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.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

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

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