Quotes by Charles Lamb

“We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.”

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.”

“Books think for me.”

“If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!”

“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.”

“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.”

“Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.”

“Man is a gaming animal.”

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.”

“Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.”

“'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.”

“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”

“Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.”

“I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not ob...”

“In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.”

“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”

“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.”

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

“He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.”