Quotes by Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

English essayist

Lived from: 1775 - 1834

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 february 1775 Died: 27 december 1834

  • How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
  • The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
  • Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
  • 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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  • How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
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  • Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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  • 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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  • A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
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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.
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  • Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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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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  • Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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  • Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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  • For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
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  • He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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  • He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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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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  • In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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  • Lawyers I suppose were children once.
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  • Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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  • My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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  • Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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  • Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
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What are the most famous quotes from Charles Lamb?

The two most famous quotes from Charles Lamb are:

  • "How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,"
  • "Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."

When did Charles Lamb live?

Charles Lamb was born in 1775 and died in the year 1834.