Quote

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

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
Liked
Like

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
Image
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
Charles Lamb
Image
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
Charles Lamb
Image
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
Charles Lamb
Image
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
Charles Lamb
Image
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
Charles Lamb
Image
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
Charles Lamb
Image
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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
The world meets nobody half way.
Charles Lamb
Image
If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Charles Lamb
Image
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
Charles Lamb