Charles Lamb Quotes
Best 19 Other Quotes by Charles Lamb
“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”
“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”
“A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition.”
“A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
“Books think for me.”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.”
“I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.”
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.”
“No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.”
“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.”
“The vices of some men are magnificent.”
“We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.”
“What a place to be is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours ... were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets.”
“Who first invented work and bound the free
And holiday-rejoicing spirit down
To the unremitting importunity
Of business, in the green fields, and the town;
To plough, loom, anvil, spade--and oh! most sad!
To this dry drudgery of the desk's dead wood?
Who but the Being unblest, alien from good,
SABBATHLESS SATAN!”
