Charles Lamb Quotes about Time

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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

Charles Lamb

Sweet, Time, Home

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

Charles Lamb

Time, Play, Firsts

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

Charles Lamb

New Year, Time, Years

Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

Charles Lamb

Time, Men, People

Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.215