Charles Lamb quotes

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. (Charles Lamb)
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. View quote
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. View quote
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New Year's Day is every man's birthday. View quote
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. View quote
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. View quote
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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. View quote
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. View quote
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. View quote
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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. View quote
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. (Charles Lamb)
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. View quote
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. View quote
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. View quote
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. View quote
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. View quote
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It is good to love the unknown. View quote
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. View quote
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. View quote
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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. View quote
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. (Charles Lamb)
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. View quote
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Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. View quote
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Not if I know myself at all. View quote
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