Charles Lamb Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

• It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Eye, Thinking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

• Man is a gaming animal.

  Charles Lamb

  Animal, Men, Gambling

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

• Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

  Charles Lamb

  Animal, Cages, Wild Animal

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Last essays of Elia”, p.93

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