Quote

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

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
Summer
Friend
Writing
Coleridge
Severity
Writes
Usual

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
The vices of some men are magnificent.
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
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
Charles Lamb
Image
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb
Image
Half as sober as a judge.
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
No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
Charles Lamb
Image
O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles Lamb
Image
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
Charles Lamb
Image
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
Charles Lamb
Image
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
Charles Lamb
Image
By myself walking, To myself talking.
Charles Lamb
Image
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
Charles Lamb
Image
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
Charles Lamb
Image
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
Charles Lamb
Image
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
Charles Lamb
Image
A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Charles Lamb
Image
Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
Charles Lamb