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
contentment wish littles
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
funny-inspirational spring fools-day
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
dog book reading
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
funny hilarious witty
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
life pain evidence
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
character deeds-done charity
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
food inspire cooking
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
book mean odd
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
beauty reality
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
new-year years old-year
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
new-year holiday years
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
destiny errands riddle
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
men self dimensions
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
attitude hate men
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.