Quote

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

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
May
Foul
Pockets
Stupidly
Thou
Fiend
Thee
Rattle
Strength
Worshipped
Health
Blindly
Liberty
Hast
Money
Abused

More quotes by Charles Lamb

Image
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
Charles Lamb
Image
A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Charles Lamb
Image
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Charles Lamb
Image
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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
Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
Charles Lamb
Image
There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
Charles Lamb
Image
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Charles Lamb
Image
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
Charles Lamb
Image
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
Charles Lamb
Image
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
Charles Lamb
Image
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
Image
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb
Image
By myself walking, To myself talking.
Charles Lamb
Image
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
Charles Lamb
Image
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
Charles Lamb
Image
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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