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
night other-worlds smoking
This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
two smoking three
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
waiting remember glory
Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
mind body absence
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
grateful pigs might
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
body sometimes speak
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
people superstitions sides
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
love green earth
I am in love with this green Earth.
art science world
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
book doe favour
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
walking-sticks literature crutches
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
hate men matter
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
men apples opinion
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.