Quote

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

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
Heart
Counsel
Shut
Library
Thee

More quotes by 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
Image
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
Charles Lamb
Image
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb
Image
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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
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
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
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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
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 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
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
Charles Lamb
Image
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb
Image
The vices of some men are magnificent.
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
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb