372 Quotes by Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Not if I know myself at all.

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

I am in love with the green earth.

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

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.