“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”
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Famous Charles Lamb Quotes
Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820
“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
“Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.”
Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
Source: Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd
Source: The letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale
“My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.”
“Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
“Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.”
Source: Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H
Source: Essays of Elia
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
Source: The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]
“It is good to love the unknown.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”
Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd
Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia
“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”
“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.”
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale
Source: The Essays of Elia
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
Source: The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia
“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.
Source: Essays of Elia
“What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.”
“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Not if I know myself at all.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
“In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb