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
talking walking
By myself walking, To myself talking.
spiritual book reading
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?
wise errors looks
You look wise, pray correct that error.
physicians dies
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
simplicity
Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.
attachment done london
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
lying dying bud
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
acting bears excited
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
childhood milk praise
A babe is fed with milk and praise.
angel giving water
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
strong faces yearning
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
music pain italian
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
men animal gambling
Man is a gaming animal.
done world tasks
I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.