49 Quotations by Charles Lamb
- 1. 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
- 2. A child's a plaything for an hour.
- 3. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
- 4. A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an od ...
- 5. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feath ...
- 6. Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and crea ...
- 7. Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions fo ...
- 8. Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
- 9. Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
- 10. For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hea ...
- 11. He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
- 12. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
- 13. How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S ...
- 14. I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find ou ...
- 15. I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to ot ...
- 16. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th ...
- 17. I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelve ...
- 18. In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
- 19. Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
- 20. Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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