Charles Lamb Quotes

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

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.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.