Quote

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

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
Milk
Infusion
Luxury
Boiled
Woods
Tempered
China
Delicacy
Beyond
Wood
Kind
Tea
Hath
Sugar

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Charles Lamb
Image
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
Charles Lamb
Image
To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
Charles Lamb
Image
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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
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
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Charles Lamb
Image
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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
A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
Charles Lamb
Image
We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
Charles Lamb
Image
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb
Image
It is good to love the unknown.
Charles Lamb
Image
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
Charles Lamb
Image
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
Charles Lamb
Image
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb