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
book
Books which are no books.
book taught looks
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
eye heaven earth
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
years heaven spheres
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
children science men
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
night other-worlds smoking
This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
two smoking three
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
waiting remember glory
Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
mind body absence
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
grateful pigs might
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
body sometimes speak
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
people superstitions sides
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
love green earth
I am in love with this green Earth.
art science world
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?