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.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

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

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

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.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

It is good to love the unknown.

What is reading, but silent conversation.