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
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
practice enjoy-life theory
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
birthday new-year holiday
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
sports pain hours
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
opinion species property
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
tombstone looks doe
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
friends court
It is good to have friends at court.
men animal gambling
Man is a gaming animal.
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?
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?"
thinking may way
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
men self dimensions
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
sports war squash
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
hands dirt trump
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!