Charles Lamb Quotes & Quotations

Charles Lamb Quotes

» Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

» When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

» The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

» My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

» Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

» We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

» Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

» Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

» He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

» I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

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