Time partially reconciles us
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content–doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages. Charles Lamb
Quotes for All
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content–doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages. Charles Lamb
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness. Charles Lamb
We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey–somehow as we are shy of poor relations. Charles Lamb
A laxity pervades the popular use of words. Charles Lamb
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. Charles Lamb
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface. Charles Lamb
Dream not … of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad! Charles Lamb
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Charles Lamb
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone. Charles Lamb
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. Charles Lamb