Charles Lamb
21 quotations
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Lawyers I suppose were children once.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
The vices of some men are magnificent.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
I could never hate anyone I knew.