Frases de Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Fecha de nacimiento: 10. Febrero 1775
Fecha de muerte: 27. Diciembre 1834
Charles Lamb fue un ensayista inglés de ascendencia galesa, principalmente reconocido por su obra Essays of Elia y por el libro de cuentos Tales from Shakespeare, escrito en colaboración con su hermana, Mary Lamb . Lamb ha sido descrito por E.V. Lucas, su biógrafo principal, como la figura más encantadora de la literatura inglesa, y su influencia en los ensayos ingleses no puede ser subestimada. Charles Lamb fue homenajeado por la Latymer School, escuela que posee seis dependencias, una de las cuales se denomina "Lamb" en su honor.
Frases Charles Lamb
„Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.“
Fuente: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
„Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
Essays of Elia (1823)
„I love to lose myself in other men's minds.“
— Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
„The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.“
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).
„Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights’ sensations.“
— Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
„I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true time, which a man can properly call his own, that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people’s time, not his. The remnant of my poor days, long or short, is at least multiplied for me three-fold. My ten next years, if I stretch so far, will be as long as any preceding thirty.“
— Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
„It is good to love the unknown.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
Valentine's Day; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)