quotes by Charles Lamb

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

""Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.""
— Charles Lamb

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

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

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading."
— Charles Lamb

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

"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!"
— Charles Lamb

"Dream not...of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad."
— Charles Lamb

"Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!"
— Charles Lamb

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

""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.""
— Charles Lamb

""Dream not...of having tastes all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad.""
— Charles Lamb

"Dream not...of having tastes all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad."
— Charles Lamb