„Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.“
Letter to Southey (August 9, 1815)
Frases Charles Lamb
„Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
Valentine's Day.
Essays of Elia (1823)
„Severe and saintly righteousness
Composed the clear white bridal dress;
Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King
Bought with his blood the marriage ring“
A Vision Of Repentance, as quoted in Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.
„Gone before
To that unknown and silent shore.“
Hester (1803), st. 7.
„Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!“
Lamb's Suppers; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.“
Captain Starkey; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„A good-natured woman…which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor.“
Letter to Hazlitt (November 10, 1805)
„Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.“
cited in A Little Book of Aphorisms (New York: 1947), p. 186.
„Not if I know myself at all.“
The Old and New Schoolmaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Books which are no books.“
— Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
„Neat, not gaudy.“
Letter to Wordsworth (1806); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„I came home for ever!“
Letter to Bernard Barton (April 6, 1825), on leaving his "33 years' desk" at the East India House.
„It argues an insensibility.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
„Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
„I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
Imperfect Sympathies.
Essays of Elia (1823)
„Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.“
— Charles Lamb, libro Essays of Elia
The Two Races of Men.
Essays of Elia (1823)
