CHARLES LAMB QUOTES

“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds.”

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

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

“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.”

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

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

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

“I am in love with this green earth.” “I feel like a man making a botanical excursion into his own kitchen garden.”

“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”

“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”

“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.” CLUBHOUSE QUOTES

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

“The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

“I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

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

“I had fainted under the first stroke. I should have swooned away just as I struck the floor.”

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”

“Like an obsolete article of Belief, do not cease from their bad customs, until something else, nothing to oe else can be adopted.”

“Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down.”

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

“Lamb — not locked, after all.”

“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”