Quote

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

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
Last
Exhaled
May
Jest
Pipe
Drawn
Smoking
Breath
Breaths
Lasts

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
Charles Lamb
Image
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
Charles Lamb
Image
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
Charles Lamb
Image
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
Charles Lamb
Image
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb
Image
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
Charles Lamb
Image
By myself walking, To myself talking.
Charles Lamb
Image
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Charles Lamb
Image
Mother's love grows by giving.
Charles Lamb
Image
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
Charles Lamb
Image
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
Charles Lamb
Image
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Charles Lamb
Image
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
Charles Lamb
Image
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
Charles Lamb
Image
The true poet dreams being awake.
Charles Lamb
Image
Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
Charles Lamb
Image
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
Charles Lamb
Image
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
Charles Lamb