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
hate men matter
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
hate
I could never hate anyone I knew.
hate men thinking
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"
hate men knowing
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
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.
half searching transcend
Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.
beauty reality
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
wall tired air
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!
sweet children kind
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
hands dirt trump
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
strong drinking men
Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
men next good-work
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
judging half sober
Half as sober as a judge.
fancy wanderers
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.