Charles Lamb Quotes
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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Gone beforeTo that unknown and silent shore.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Books which are no books.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart,Just as the whim bites. For my part,I do not care a farthing candleFor either of them, nor for Handel.
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Neat, not gaudy.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Nay, rather,Plant divine, of rarest virtue;Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
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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.
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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.