Charles Lamb Quotes

1775–1834 England

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.

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Also known as: Lamb, Charles

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Stinking’st of the stinking kind,
Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind,
Africa, that brags her foyson,
Breeds no such prodigious poison,
Henbane, nightshade, both together,
Hemlock, aconite—

A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

Thou in such a cloud dost bind us,
That our worst foes cannot find us,
And ill fortune, that would thwart us,
Shoots at rovers, shooting at us;
While each man, through thy height'ning steam,
Does like a smoking Etna seem.

A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

It argues an insensibility.

Essays of Elia (1823)

The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.

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I could never hate anyone I knew.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Lamb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.