Quotes by Charles Lamb

About Charles Lamb:

Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Charles Lamb

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

What is reading but silent conversation.

Charles Lamb

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

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.

Charles Lamb

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 ...

Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Charles Lamb

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Charles Lamb

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

Charles Lamb

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Charles Lamb

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Charles Lamb

Author Bio

  • NameCharles Lamb
  • DescriptionEnglish essayist
  • BornFebruary 10, 1775
  • DiedDecember 27, 1834
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Playwright