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
mind body absence
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
understanding mind topics
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
book mind
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
character imagination mind
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
work mind prey
No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
men apples mind
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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.