Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).
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“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
Source: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”
Poor Relations.
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Charles Lamb Quotes about life
Letter to Thomas Manning (February 15, 1802)
“The superannuated man”
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Letter to Wordsworth (January 30, 1801)
“The superannuated man”
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Valentine's Day.
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“The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.”
Popular Fallacies: XIII, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog.
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Charles Lamb Quotes about books
Popular Fallacies: XI, That We Must Not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth.
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Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
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Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
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Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
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To the Editor of the Every-Day Book; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Charles Lamb: Trending quotes
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
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Charles Lamb Quotes
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
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“The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry”
Lamb's letter to Charles Cowden Clarke, in summer, 1821. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1905). Letter 263.
In his letter to Vincent Novello, November 8, 1830.
“The superannuated man”
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“And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.”
Written at Cambridge; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.”
The Convalescent.
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“The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.”
Abraham Hayward, writing in the Edinburgh Review in 1848.
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Letter to Thomas Manning (December 26, 1815)<!-- published or quoted where? -->
Amicus Redivivus.
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“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”
Letter to Thomas Manning (February 15, 1802)
Letter to Coleridge (August 6, 1800)
Composed at midnight, as quoted in The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, p. 72.
“The superannuated man”
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A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Letter to Wordsworth (April 26, 1816)
“The Young Catechist” 1827.
“Nay, rather,
Plant divine, of rarest virtue;
Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)
“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.”
A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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My First Play; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)
Autobiographical Recollections (Leslie) ; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”
Oxford in the Vacation.
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“Riddle of destiny, who can show
What thy short visit meant, or know
What thy errand here below?”
On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (1827).
New Year's Eve.
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“It is good to love the unknown.”
Valentine's Day; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Imperfect Sympathies.
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“When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!”
Letter to Proctor (January 22, 1829), in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2000), p. 526
The Two Races of Men.
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“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
Letter to Southey (August 9, 1815)
“The superannuated man”
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“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
Witches, and Other Night Fears.
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A Vision Of Repentance, as quoted in Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.
“A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.”
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“The superannuated man”
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The Two Races of Men.
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Oxford in the Vacation.
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Letter to Mrs. William Hazlitt (1830)
“I have something more to do than to feel.”
Letter to Coleridge (September 27, 1796), after the death of Lamb's mother.
Letter to John Chambers (1817)
“A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best.
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