| 26 Famous Quotes by Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
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“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis
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“"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."”
Gifts Quotes Source: A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
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“Neat, not gaudy.”
Style Quotes Source: in a letter to Wordsworth
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“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),”
Reading Quotes Source: Last Essays of Elia--Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
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“The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Fancy employed on Divine Subjects (I, 1)
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“Half as sober as a judge.”
Judges Quotes Source: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Maxon
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“I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.”
Judges Quotes Source: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Maxon
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“What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all
the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours
to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or
middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves,
their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem
to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of
their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom
of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),”
Libraries Quotes Source: Essays of Elia--Oxford in the Vacation
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“Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .
To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .
Sabbathless Satan!”
Work Quotes Source: Work
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“The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion.”
Bells Quotes Source: The Sabbath Bells
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“Neat, not gaudy.”
Apparel Quotes Source: in a letter to Wordsworth
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“If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!”
Cleanliness Quotes Source: Lamb's Suppers (vol. II, last chapter)
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“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.”
Sweetness Quotes Source: On Ears
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“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to
society.”
Society Quotes Source: Captain Starkey
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“Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life.”
Society Quotes Source: Captain Starkey
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“A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.”
Cards Quotes Source: Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
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“The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism
that have made our country so great.”
Cards Quotes Source: Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
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“Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.”
Cards Quotes Source: Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
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“You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you
are preparing for yourself!
[Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle
triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!”
Cards Quotes Source: Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
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“Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with
its usual severity.”
Summer Quotes Source: To V. Novello
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“A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb
put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full
inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the
business for me."”
Eating Quotes Source: Autobiographical Recollections, by Charles R. Leslie
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“He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious
epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die.”
Eating Quotes Source: Dissertation upon Roast Pig
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“Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving:
Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!
Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living
Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.”
Babyhood Quotes Source: The Gypsy's Malison, a sonnet in a letter to Mrs. Procter
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“Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body
came to be called in question by it.”
Absence Quotes Source: Amicus Redivivus
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“For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.”
Absence Quotes Source: Oxford in the Vacation
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Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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