Charles Lamb As Quotes
Collection of top 60 famous quotes about Charles Lamb As
Charles Lamb As Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Charles Lamb As quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
— Charles Lamb
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.
— Charles Lamb
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
— Charles Lamb
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
— Charles Lamb
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
— Charles Lamb
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
— Charles Lamb
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
— Charles Lamb
and write as a boy and he
— Charles Lamb
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
— Charles Lamb
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
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
— Charles Lamb
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
— Charles Lamb
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
— Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
— Charles Lamb
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
— Charles Lamb
I ask and wish not to appearMore beauteous, rich or gay:
Lord, make me wiser every year,
And better every day. — Charles Lamb
Trample not on the ruins of a man.
— Charles Lamb
Half as sober as a judge.
— Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal.
— Charles Lamb
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
— Charles Farrar Browne
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
— Charles Lamb
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
— Charles Lamb
The vices of some men are magnificent.
— Charles Lamb
Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad.
— Charles Lamb
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
— Charles Lamb
Not if I know myself at all.
— Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
— Charles Lamb
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
— Charles Lamb
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
— Charles Lamb
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
— Charles Lamb
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
— Charles Lamb
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
— Charles Lamb
Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
— Charles Lamb
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
— Charles Lamb
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.
— Charles Lamb
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
— Charles Lamb
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
— Charles Lamb
It is good to love the unknown.
— Charles Lamb
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.
— Charles Lamb
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
— Charles Lamb
An album is a garden, not for showPlanted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow. — Charles Lamb
By myself walking, To myself talking.
— Charles Lamb
Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
— Charles Lamb
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
— Charles Lamb
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
— Charles Lamb
I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
— Charles Lamb
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
— Charles Lamb
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
— Charles Lamb
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
— Charles Lamb
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
— Charles Lamb