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  • Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

    Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.185
  • 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.

  • The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

  • Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

    Men  
    Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271
  • The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

    Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181
  • I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

    Men  
    Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green, Charles Robinson (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb”
  • Presents, I often say, endear absents.

    'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Dissertation upon Roast Pig'
  • In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

    Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.154
  • Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

    Believe  
    Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75
  • The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

    Men  
    Letter to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 (quoting from 'The Londoner', no. 1), in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57
  • My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

    "The Works of Charles Lamb".
  • I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

    Men  
    On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262
  • I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

  • You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

    Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.52
  • My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

    Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.89
  • No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

    Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17
  • If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

    Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.178
  • I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

    Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1935). “The letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb”
  • Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

    Men  
  • I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

    Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

    Charles Lamb (1858). “The letter of Charles Lamb, newly arranged: with additions; ed., with introduction and notes”, p.38
  • Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

    Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.216
  • He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

    Book   Reading  
    Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.167
  • The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

    Men  
  • All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

    Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.32
  • Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

    Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series”, p.128
  • This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

    Men  
  • His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

    Charles Lamb (1870). “The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.454
  • When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

    Reading  
    Charles Lamb (1836). “Elia”, p.44
  • New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

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