Charles Lamb Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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.
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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.
Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence.