~ Charles Lamb Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

[MysteRy]

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

[MysteRy]

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

[MysteRy]

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.

[MysteRy]

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

[MysteRy]

The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself; the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.

[MysteRy]

I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!