Charles LambWho has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?361LoveSadness
Charles LambHis voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with. ✨ Charles Lamb (1870). The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb: With an Essay on His Life an… ▶361Life
Charles Lamb'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we … ▶372LoveThought
Charles LambAsparagus inspires gentle thoughts.351Thought
Charles LambI like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves. ✨ Sa… ▶362Reading
Charles LambThose evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!351Time
Charles LambThe 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, no… ▶363HumanityTimeTruth
Charles LambFly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.374Love
Charles LambThe English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?341Thought
Charles LambMother's love grows by giving. ✨ Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, p.196364Love
Charles LambThere is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.331Hope
Charles LambI mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ✨ 'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races … ▶365Reading
Charles LambA 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 i… ▶376Reading
Charles LambAnything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. ✨ Letter to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (19… ▶343Humor
Charles LambThe greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. ✨ The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb.365Life
Charles LambHere cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.365Life
Charles LambAll, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ✨ The Old Familiar Faces l. 1 (1798)366Life
Charles LambAs half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!377Humanity
Charles LambWe grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.344Philosophy
Charles LambI hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.323Philosophy
Charles LambFor God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. ✨ Letter to Coleridge, August 6, 1800.301Love
Charles LambOh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.312Sadness
Charles LambSeparate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. ✨ Charles Lamb (1855). Letters ... with a sketch of his life, p.154… ▶357Life
Charles LambA clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ✨ Charles Lamb (2008). The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, p.181, Cosimo, Inc.379LifeLove
Charles LambGo where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!379Truth
Charles LambBoys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. ✨ Charles Lamb (1835). Essays of Elia, p.58291Humanity
Charles LambI always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.357Time
Charles LambAntiquity! 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, … ▶324HopeReflectionTime
Charles LambThe light that lies In woman's eyes.302Truth
Charles LambAy, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, … ▶368Thought
