Charles Lamb Quotes

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

~ Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

~ Charles Lamb

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

~ Charles Lamb

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

~ Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

~ Charles Lamb

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.

~ Charles Lamb

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

~ Charles Lamb

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

~ 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

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

~ Charles Lamb

Books think for me.

~ Charles Lamb

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

~ 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 greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

~ Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

~ Charles Lamb

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

~ Charles Lamb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

~ Charles Lamb

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

~ Charles Lamb

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

~ Charles Lamb

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

~ Charles Lamb

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

~ Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

~ Charles Lamb

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

~ Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

~ Charles Lamb

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

~ Charles Lamb

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

~ Charles Lamb