Charles Lamb Quotes - Page 6

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• I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Mean, Odd

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

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• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

  Charles Lamb

  Night, Other Worlds, Smoking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207

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• Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

  Charles Lamb

  Dining Alone, Dinner, Eating

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.185

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• Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1935). “The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas”

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• I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Enemy, Pun

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green, Charles Robinson (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb”

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• Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.

  Charles Lamb

  War, Dust, Blood

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• It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

  Charles Lamb

  Thanksgiving, Gluttony, Occasions

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.125

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• I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Thinking, Tunes

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Chapter on Ears'

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• Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Heart, Childhood

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• I have something more to do than to feel.

  Charles Lamb

  Feels

  On the death of his mother, at his sister Mary's hands: letter to Coleridge, 1796, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb'

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• Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

  Charles Lamb

  Acting, Bears, Excited

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1278, Delphi Classics

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• When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Stars, Fall

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• There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

  Charles Lamb

  Pleasure

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.440, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

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• The vices of some men are magnificent.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Vices, Magnificent

  Charles Lamb, Will MacDonald, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches”

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• To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

  Charles Lamb

  Sugar, Honey, Sweetness

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.54

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• A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.

  Charles Lamb

  Believe, Son, Men

  Charles Lamb, Rosamund Gray (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.104

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• The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

  Charles Lamb

  Anxiety, Human Nature, Cowardice

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.219

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• Presents, I often say, endear absents.

  Charles Lamb

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Dissertation upon Roast Pig'

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• Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

  Charles Lamb

  Thinking, Wife, Childhood

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.118

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• The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

  Charles Lamb

  Friends, Party, Going Away

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Poor, Ends

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.215

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• A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

  Charles Lamb

  Distance, Doors, Sublime

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