Quotes By Charles Lamb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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.

It is good to love the unknown.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

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.

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.

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 beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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.

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.

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

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