Charles Lamb's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Critic
Nation: English
Biography of Charles Lamb
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Tags: Among, Companions, GrownClap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Tags: Blessed, Clap, IronyNewspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Tags: Curiosity, Feeling, NewspapersShakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Tags: Book, Give, PrayerThe 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.
Tags: Best, Human, MenThe man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Tags: Melancholy, Rare, StreetThe measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Tags: Good, Measure, WhetherThe teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Tags: Him, Less, TruthA book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Tags: Book, Dog, ReadHere cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Tags: Friendship, Her, TalkThe most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Tags: Beauty, Soul, TrueWe gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Tags: Another, Mediocrity, MenI have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Tags: Days, Old, SchoolMan is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Tags: Animal, Gaming, TryingI always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Tags: Late, Leaving, OfficeThe greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Tags: Action, Good, GreatestI am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Tags: Children, Father, ReligionNothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Tags: Less, Space, TimeSome people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Tags: Gratitude, Real, ValueA 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.
Tags: Intellect, Laws, OffHuman behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Tags: Attention, Human, WordsHowever far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Tags: May, Pretty, WritingAs my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Tags: Early, Follow, HumansI like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
Tags: Best, Surprised, WritingI like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Tags: Become, Character, WritingI think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Tags: Beyond, Life, WriteLove comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Tags: Crowd, Far, LoveLove stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
Tags: Able, Love, Write