Quotes By Charles Lamb

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.

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

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

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.