Quotes By Charles Lamb

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

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.

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.

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

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

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.

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.