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
pockets painful deny
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
dream mad fancy
Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
men good-man doe
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
sweet children bears
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
character imagination mind
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.
prejudice bundles made
I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
dream poetry poet
The true poet dreams being awake.
hands dirt trump
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
truth latitude-and-longitude tales
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
health meals blank
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
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.
strength children men
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.