Quote

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lamb

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Boys
Unwholesome
Way
Companions
People
Mates
Companion
Capital
Grown
Fellows
Among

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
Charles Lamb
Image
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
Charles Lamb
Image
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
Charles Lamb
Image
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
Image
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 obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
Charles Lamb
Image
'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
Charles Lamb
Image
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
Charles Lamb
Image
By myself walking, To myself talking.
Charles Lamb
Image
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Charles Lamb
Image
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb
Image
You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
Charles Lamb
Image
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb
Image
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
Charles Lamb
Image
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
Image
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
Charles Lamb
Image
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
Charles Lamb
Image
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
Charles Lamb
Image
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.
Charles Lamb
Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
Charles Lamb
Image
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
Charles Lamb