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
men two race
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
men likes wells
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
children law political
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
men smoking toil
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
hate men knowing
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
hair long age
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
poverty
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
anxiety human-nature cowardice
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
law two-sides feet
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
men animal gambling
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
daughter farewell dark
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
flower sea wish
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
men next good-work
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
fancy wanderers
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.