Quotes by Charles Lamb

The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.

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.

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

Books think for me.

If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

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

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

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

Man is a gaming animal.

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

New Years Day is every mans birthday.

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

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

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.