Charles Lamb Quotes about Character

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

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

Charles Lamb

Character, Deeds Done, Charity

"The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

Charles Lamb

Business, Character, Men

Charles Lamb (1884). “Little essays, sketches and characters, by C. Lamb, selected from his letters by P. Fitzgerald”

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Charles Lamb

Character, Nerves, Wit

Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.

Charles Lamb

Character, Imagination, Mind

Charles Lamb Quotes about Character

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