Charles Lamb Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.”

“I could never hate anyone I knew.”

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.”

“Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”

“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

“She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.”

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

“For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.”

“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”