Quotes By Charles Lamb

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.

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

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

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

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

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

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.