“Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.”
Source: The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia
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Famous Charles Lamb Quotes
Source: The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montombery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume
“Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
Source: Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale
“Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.”
“There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”
Source: Essays of Elia
“Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?”
“Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid”
“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.”
Source: The Last Essays of Elia
“Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?”
“Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.”
Source: The essays of Elia...
“No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.”
“A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.”
“My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
Source: Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine
Source: Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund
Source: Essays of Elia