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Charles Lamb Quotes

English - Critic | February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Early Late Leaving Office Always Up

It is good to love the unknown.

Love Good Unknown To Love

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

People Way Own Capital Companions

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

Good Action Know Pleasure Out Found

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Myself Men I Am Mediocrity Nothing

A 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 it at tea with buttered muffins.

Dog Tea Book Better Long Know

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Life Pain More Evidence Sharper

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Grow Possible Old Like Slowly Very

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Man Street Rare Recipe Must Dull

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Now Become Days Purposes

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Love Myself Men Lose Minds Other

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Mind Book She Over Her Afterwards

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