Top 15 Charles Lamb Quotes

British essayist, poet, antiquarian (1775–1834)

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Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.

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Pen Names: Elia

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

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

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

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

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

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me

Contented with little yet wishing for more

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.