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Quotes by Charles Lamb
“ When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!' ”
“ Fanny Kelly's divine plain face. ”
“ I have something more to do than to feel. ”
“ I came home for ever! ”
“ Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down? ”
“ He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ”
“ I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. ”
“ Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? ”
“ This very night I am going to ''leave off Tobacco''! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized. ”
“ Riddle of destiny, who can show
What thy short visit meant, or know
What thy errand here below? ”
“ For thy sake, Tobacco, I
Would do anything but die. ”
“ For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Nursed amid her London's noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with ''usury'' to such scenes? ”
“ Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart,
Just as the whim bites. For my part,
I do not care a farthing candle
For either of them, nor for Handel. ”
“ Please to blot out ''gentle hearted'', and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question. ”
“ Gone before
To that unknown and silent shore. ”
“ Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life. ”
“ A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor. ”
“ The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ”
“ Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. ”
“ The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. ”
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