372 Quotes by Charles Lamb

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o’er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey – somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

If thou would’st have me sing and play As once I play’d and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father’s dwelling?

A child’s nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

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.

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm’s length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.

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.