Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) "Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Half as sober as a judge.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...
CHARLES LAMB Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my ...
CHARLES LAMB 'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB Lawyers I suppose were children once.
CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
CHARLES LAMB A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
CHARLES LAMB Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
CHARLES LAMB Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions fo...
CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with...
CHARLES LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
CHARLES LAMB We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always...
CHARLES LAMB A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an od...
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 feath...
CHARLES LAMB Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothi...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden...
CHARLES LAMB The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
CHARLES LAMB How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S...
CHARLES LAMB For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hea...
CHARLES LAMB The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
CHARLES LAMB To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB Presents, I often say, endear absents.
CHARLES LAMB The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
CHARLES LAMB In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
CHARLES LAMB Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to ...
CHARLES LAMB The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races:...
CHARLES LAMB We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquire...
CHARLES LAMB Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find ou...
CHARLES LAMB Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gr...
CHARLES LAMB It is good to love the unknown.
CHARLES LAMB Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
CHARLES LAMB My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
CHARLES LAMB Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
CHARLES LAMB I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
CHARLES LAMB Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
CHARLES LAMB I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
CHARLES LAMB Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
CHARLES LAMB I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...
CHARLES LAMB Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
CHARLES LAMB Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou...
CHARLES LAMB Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
CHARLES LAMB The vices of some men are magnificent.
CHARLES LAMB There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the co...
CHARLES LAMB Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
CHARLES LAMB The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudi...
CHARLES LAMB No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their ti...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB A little thin, flowery border round, neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,...
CHARLES LAMB A child's a plaything for an hour.
CHARLES LAMB Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv...
CHARLES LAMB Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.
CHARLES LAMB Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever
CHARLES LAMB What is reading, but silent conversation.
CHARLES LAMB I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as an...
CHARLES LAMB It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
CHARLES LAMB For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creato...
CHARLES LAMB Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it
CHARLES LAMB Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dyi...
CHARLES LAMB Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagiri...
CHARLES LAMB Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less
CHARLES LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport
CHARLES LAMB I feel particularly sad about the families,
CHARLES LAMB I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
CHARLES LAMB Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing
CHARLES LAMB I hate a man who swallows it [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his tast...
CHARLES LAMB There is a pleasure in affecting affectation
CHARLES LAMB I came home . . . hungry as a hunter.
CHARLES LAMB My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it
CHARLES LAMB His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with ...
CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides
CHARLES LAMB I could never hate anyone I knew
CHARLES LAMB We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon ...
CHARLES LAMB Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life
CHARLES LAMB The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
CHARLES LAMB Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
CHARLES LAMB New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
CHARLES LAMB Who first invented work and bound the free / And holiday-rejoicing spirit down?
CHARLES LAMB I have no ear.
CHARLES LAMB Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
CHARLES LAMB All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose...
CHARLES LAMB A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the co...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen
CHARLES LAMB Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
CHARLES LAMB Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in chil...
CHARLES LAMB Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
CHARLES LAMB When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox A...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas ...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery ...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS (USED PSEUDONYM SALADIN) To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste ...
ELIA KAZAN Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
ELIA KAZAN I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
ELIA KAZAN The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cann...
ELIA KAZAN Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
ELIA KAZAN Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
ELIA KAZAN I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
ELIA KAZAN I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left a...
ELIA KAZAN I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
ELIA KAZAN If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
ELIA KAZAN Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
ELIA KAZAN Jesus Christ, he is Cal!
ELIA KAZAN I've been ratting on myself all these years and I didn't know it. I'm glad what I done.
ELIA KAZAN I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
ELIA KAZAN He was smart, he knew everything.
ELIA KAZAN I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
ELIA KAZAN I thought what a terrible thing I had done; not the political aspect of it because maybe that was co...
ELIA KAZAN The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
ELIA KAZAN When you come to my show you get the real thing. I don't pretend to be Sinatra — I just happen to ...
PAUL ELIA What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are p...
ELIA KAZAN The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
ELIA KAZAN If we drop the rates today, and the price increase continues, then in a very short period of time we...
ELIA GERMANI I don't think it's our role to sit down with various parties, and come to an agreement, a consensus....
ELIA GERMANI WHAT WE'RE DEALING with here is a request by the electric company to pass on to its customers costs ...
ELIA GERMANI This is a long-term problem, it's a long-term energy crisis, which has not been addressed by either ...
ELIA GERMANI If you cannot be quiet, I'm going to ask you to leave the room.
ELIA GERMANI Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
ELIA KAZAN A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
ELIA KAZAN A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
ELIA KAZAN I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film e...
ELIA KAZAN Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
ELIA KAZAN I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
ELIA KAZAN I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
ELIA KAZAN I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or ...
ELIA KAZAN I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
ELIA KAZAN I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
ELIA KAZAN I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other c...
ELIA KAZAN I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
ELIA KAZAN I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to ...
ELIA KAZAN The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
ELIA KAZAN