Charles Lamb quotes

“For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.”

— Charles Lamb

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

— Charles Lamb

“It is good to love the unknown.”

— Charles Lamb

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

— Charles Lamb

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.”

— Charles Lamb

“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”

— Charles Lamb

“Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.”

— Charles Lamb

“She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.”

— 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

“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”

— Charles Lamb

“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.”

— Charles Lamb

“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”

— Charles Lamb

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

— Charles Lamb

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.”

— 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