Quotes from Charles Lamb

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

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.

I am in love with the green earth.

It is good to love the unknown.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

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.

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

Books think for me.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!

Man is a gaming animal.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.