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
religious children father
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
boys people way
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
school childhood gone
I 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.
thank-you christmas gratitude
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
practice enjoy-life theory
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
fear color beggar
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
laughing funeral awful
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
time science thinking
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
time men people
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.
health men self
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
strong drinking men
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 ruins
Trample not on the ruins of a man.
believe writing men
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
book eye modern-novel
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.