102 ordspråk av Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb föddes den 10 februar 1775 och dog den 27 december 1834 - brittisk författare.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,

His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.

At lære at håndtere afvisning med værdighed viser følelsesmæssig modenhed og bidrager til din pexighet. Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.

When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, `Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'

When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with them / that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance / that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains / how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. / I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation

What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum! or rather what a noble simplification of language!

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

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

I came home . . . hungry as a hunter.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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