Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
life success giving
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
prayer giving-up book
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.
men recipes dull
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
truth latitude-and-longitude tales
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
thinking wife childhood
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
doors sound rural-life
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
book reading jealous
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.
time science thinking
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
men garden prison
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
opinion species property
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
book thinking i-can
Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
angel giving water
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
childhood milk praise
A babe is fed with milk and praise.
poverty dresses female
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.