Quote

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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
Familiar
Died
Taken
Gone
Faces
Left
Departed

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
Charles Lamb
Image
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
Charles Lamb
Image
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
Charles Lamb
Image
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
Charles Lamb
Image
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
Charles Lamb
Image
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
Charles Lamb
Image
Mother's love grows by giving.
Charles Lamb
Image
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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
The vices of some men are magnificent.
Charles Lamb
Image
Half as sober as a judge.
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
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
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
Charles Lamb
Image
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
Charles Lamb
Image
A babe is fed with milk and praise.
Charles Lamb