Charles Lamb

Critic

1775-02-10

Books by Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]
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The Essays of Elia
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The essays of Elia, first series
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Quotes by Charles Lamb

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
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There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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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.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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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.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding.
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I love to lose myself in other men s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
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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.
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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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