The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals. Charles Lamb More Quotes by Charles Lamb More Quotes From Charles Lamb I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library. Charles Lamb librarytheeheart Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.' Charles Lamb toilsmokingmen Brandy and water spoils two good things. Charles Lamb foodwatertwo No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food. Charles Lamb preymindwork How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband! Charles Lamb husbandcheerchildren The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured. Charles Lamb apollosilencedumb If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there! Charles Lamb bedsicksolitude I ask and wish not to appear Charles Lamb gayprayeryears O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend! Charles Lamb pocketslibertymoney It is good to have friends at court. Charles Lamb courtfriends Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded. Charles Lamb god-knowsmeritlittles Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission? Charles Lamb excitedactingbears A flow'ret crushed in the bud, Charles Lamb coffinsdyinglying The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer. Charles Lamb kingslawboys We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. Charles Lamb raysvisiontragedy When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. Charles Lamb readingwalkingthinking By myself walking, To myself talking. Charles Lamb walkingtalking I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene? Charles Lamb readingspiritualbook You look wise, pray correct that error. Charles Lamb errorswiselooks English physicians kill you, the French let you die. Charles Lamb physiciansdies
