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Charles Lamb
English
Critic
About the author
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Mind
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Reading
#Conversation
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Colors
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Life
#Practice
#Theory
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Man
#New year
#Birthday
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Feeling
#Disappointment
#Curiosity
#Newspapers
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Time
#Nothing
#Space
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Life
#Pain
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Time
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Books
#Shakespeare
#Service
#Dying
#Prayer
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#People
#Nothing
#Value
#Gifts
#Gratitude
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Action
#Pleasure
#Accident
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Men
#Theory
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Man
#Melancholy
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Man
#Measure
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Belief
#Soul
#Body
#Beauty
#Error
#Possibility
#Appearance
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Now
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Truth
#Content
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Wishing
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Nothing
#Being
#Men
#Gain
#Longing
#Mediocrity
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Spirit
#Hair
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Talk
#Friendship
#Nonsense
#Privilege
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#People
#Boys
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Tea
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Intellect
#Wit
#Laws
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Worth
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Thoughts
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Man
#Trying
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#War
#Disguise
#Cards
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Irony
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Strength
#Man
#Weakness
#Credulity
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
It is good to love the unknown.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Love
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#World
#Fools
#April
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Children
#Lawyers
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Old
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Love
#Men
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.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Old
#School
#Childhood
#Faces
I could never hate anyone I knew.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Hate
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Children
#Religion
#Father
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Office
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb,
English
Critic
#Beauty
#Reality