Charles Lamb Quotes

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

Motto, Contented, Wishing

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb

Beauty, Live, Reality

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

Here, Again, Far

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

Beauty, True, Through

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

Long, Before, Hair

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

Friendship, Talk, Her

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

School, Old, Days

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

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

Men, Nothing, Another

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

Leaving, Office, Late

What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

Silent, Reading

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

Trying, Animal, Gaming

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

Old, Possible, Grow

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb

Good, Greatest, Action

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

Life, Pain, Evidence

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Charles Lamb

Laugh, Worth, Market

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

Laugh, Makes, Once

I could never hate anyone I knew.
Charles Lamb

Hate, Anyone, Knew

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Charles Lamb

Time, Nothing, Less

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

Gratitude, Nothing, Real

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

Off, Laws, Intellect

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb

Thoughts, Gentle, Inspires

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

Among, Grown, Companions

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Charles Lamb

War, Cards, Disguise

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

Blessed, Irony, Clap

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: February 10, 1775

Died: July 27, 1834

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