Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
sports pain hours
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
friendship mountain care
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
purses charity philanthropy
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
knowledge ifs knows
Not if I know myself at all.
nature earth green
I am in love with the green earth.
book mind
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
drinking men sober
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
marriage wedding couple
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.
knowledge men may
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
anxiety human-nature cowardice
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
poverty
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
strength children men
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
book demand binding
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
moving home beer
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.