Charles Lamb Quotes

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

It is good to love the unknown.
Charles Lamb

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

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

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Charles Lamb

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb

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

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb