372 Quotes by Charles Lamb

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

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.

Of all sound of all bells... Most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year

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

It is the law that hand intends / Which framed diversity of sex / The man the woman still defends / The manly boy the girl protects.

Two shoots from off a coffee-tree / He carried with him o'er the sea. / Each little tender coffee slip / He waters daily in the ship

Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink, / I on the generous Frenchman think, / Whose noble perseverance bore / The tree to Martinico's shore

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it

My father's grandfather lives still, / His age is fourscore years and ten; / He looks a monument of time, / The agedest of aged men. / Though years lie on him like a load, / A happier man you will not see / Than he, whenever he can get / His great grandchildren on his knee.