Quotes By Charles Lamb

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.

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

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

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

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

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.

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

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.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

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

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

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

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

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.

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.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.