Charles Lamb Quotes

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• My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

  Charles Lamb

  Wish, Contentment, Littles

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.89

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• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

  Charles Lamb

  Sports, War, Games

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45

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• When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

  Charles Lamb

  Reading, Thinking, Walking

  Charles Lamb (1836). “Elia”, p.44

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• I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

  Charles Lamb

  Age, Aging, Grows

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• Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

  Charles Lamb

  Opinion, Species, Property

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• I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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• I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

  Charles Lamb

  Prejudice, Made, Bundles

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.35

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• I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.167

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• The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

  Charles Lamb

  Drinking, Men, Sober

  1833 Last Essays of Elia,'Confessions of a Drunkard'.

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• I ask and wish not to appear
  More beauteous, rich or gay:
  Lord, make me wiser every year,
  And better every day.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Gay, Years

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

  Charles Lamb

  Beauty, Reality

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Time, Home

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• The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Race, Two

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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• A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Children, Sweetest

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Law, Political

  Essays of Elia "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" (1823)

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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Animal, Gambling

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

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• Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny Inspirational, Spring, Fools Day

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• We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Long, Age

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• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Childhood, Gone

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Men, Shining

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• Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

  Charles Lamb

  Spring, Heart, Simplicity

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1854). “Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters”, p.38

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• Trample not on the ruins of a man.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Ruins

  Charles Lamb (2012). “Charles Lamb: Selected Writings”, p.80, Routledge

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• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Success, Giving

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.253

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