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
reading book thinking
I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
reading ears needs
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
queens book reading
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
religious children father
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
age aging grows
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
friendship inspiring funny-best-friend
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
men association gains
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
laughing funeral awful
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
fear color beggar
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
practice enjoy-life theory
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
play grace devil
There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
school childhood gone
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
dream children wings
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.