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
dog gentleman sake
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
women wife maids
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?
writing age damn
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
smoking may lasts
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
men animal gambling
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
hate men knowing
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
law ears pistols
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
blessed veins irony
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
men likes wells
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
men self dimensions
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
destiny errands riddle
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
character deeds-done charity
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
life pain evidence
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
book mean odd
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.