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
kings boys law
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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.
law two-sides feet
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
children law political
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
less puzzles time troubles
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less
door exceed include interest knock rural sounds urban
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door
books cannot lose love sit
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
pouring
Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
books borrowers creators odd
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
irrelevant nature poor relation
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature
common count date january nativity regarded
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
errand riddle short thy visit
Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
blind favourite heard hearts people side
All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.
music thinking tunes
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.