Charles Lamb Quotes - Famous Quotes by Charles Lamb
Born: 1775-02-10
Died: 1834-07-27
Charles Lamb Biography
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
- Charles Lamb
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
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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
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
- Charles Lamb
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
- Charles Lamb
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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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.
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
- Charles Lamb
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
- Charles Lamb
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
- Charles Lamb
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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