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
work mind prey
No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
two water culinary
Brandy and water spoils two good things.
men smoking drs
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'
heart library thee
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
littles merit god-knows
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
acting bears excited
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
lying dying bud
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
way half world
The world meets nobody half way.
distance doors sublime
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!
luxury tea delicacy
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
sleep names shade
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
heaven feelings hell
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.
love men never-quit
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.
men soul trying
There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!