Quotes by Charles Lamb

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

Neat not gaudy.

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other peoples time not his.

For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.

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

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.

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

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

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.