372 Quotes by Charles Lamb

It is the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Led by your little elder hand, / I learned to walk alone; / Careful you used to be of me, / My little brother John.

Only in the use of the Indian weed he might be thought a little excessive. He took it, he would say, as a solvent of speech. Marry—as the friendly vapour ascended, how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it! the ligaments which tongue-tied him, were loosened, and the stammerer proceeded a satist [statesman]!

It is the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

All the colours in the rainbow All the colours in the rainbow Half the lustre of his feathers Would turn twenty coxcombs vain.

Mamma gave us a single peach, / She shared it among seven; / Now you may think that unto each / But a small piece was given.

The child, attracted by the view Of that fair orange, feebly threw. A languid look-perhaps the smell convinced it that there sure must dwell a corresponding sweetness there.

The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he Flounders round the polar sea.