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
queens book reading
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
reading book thinking
I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
poverty suits rags
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
garden use herbs
An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.
garden simplicity poetry
I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
faith mistake dark
Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.
children heart childhood
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
hypocrisy being-thankful add
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
understanding mind topics
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
observation truism commonplace
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
men vices magnificent
The vices of some men are magnificent.
friendship mountain care
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
hair enthusiasm spirit
Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.
moving fall heart
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.