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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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

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Charles Lamb

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

Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Charles Lamb

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Charles Lamb

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Charles Lamb

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

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Charles Lamb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Charles Lamb

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lamb

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Charles Lamb

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Charles Lamb

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Charles Lamb

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

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

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Charles Lamb

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem ...

Charles Lamb

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Charles Lamb

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

Charles Lamb

Author Bio

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