Charles Lamb Quotes
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Far transcend my weak invention.’Tis a simple Christian child,Missionary young and mild,From her store of script’ral knowledge (Bible-taught without a college) Which by reading she could gather, Teaches him to say Our Father To the common Parent, who Colour not respects nor hue. White and Black in him have part, Who looks not to the skin, but heart.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling-a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
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Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!In whose capacious all-embracing leavesThe very marrow of tradition 's shown;And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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Severe and saintly righteousnessComposed the clear white bridal dress;Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King Bought with his blood the marriage ring
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.
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Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights’ sensations.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
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Of Coleridge His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.