Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Quotes

• I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

• There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident.

• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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

• 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

• Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

• My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.