Charles Lamb Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

15 Famous Quotes by Charles Lamb
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“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
Credulity Quotes
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
Law and lawyers Quotes
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
Reality Quotes
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.”
Religion Quotes
“'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'”
Gifts Quotes
“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”
Hair Quotes
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
Pleasure Quotes
“These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.”
Politics / government Quotes
“Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts -- a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?”
Christianity Quotes
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.”
Borrowing Quotes
“My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.”
Contentment Quotes
“Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.”
Pain Quotes
“We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.”
Taste Quotes
“She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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