Charles Lamb Quotes

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

Blessed, Irony, Clap

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles Lamb

Strength, Child, Weakness

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

Die, Thy, Tobacco

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb

Legal, Two, Cannot

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

Religion, Father, Children

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

Love, Men, Lose

It is good to love the unknown.
Charles Lamb

Love, Good, Unknown

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb

Legal, Children, Once

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

Life, Enjoy, Against

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

Feeling, Down, Curiosity

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb

Time, Good, Give

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

Book, Give, Before

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb

Mind, Book, Her

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles Lamb

Colors, Beggar, None

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

Men, Best, Human

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

Street, Melancholy, Rare

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb

Good, Whether, Measure

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

Become, Days, Intents

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb

Truth, Him, Less

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
Charles Lamb

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: February 10, 1775

Died: July 27, 1834

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