Charles Lamb citáty a výroky
Charles Lamb: Citáty v angličtine
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
Letter to Wordsworth (April 26, 1816)
“The Young Catechist” 1827.
“Nay, rather,
Plant divine, of rarest virtue;
Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)
Letter to Wordsworth (January 30, 1801)
“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.”
A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
My First Play; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Popular Fallacies: XI, That We Must Not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
“Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)
Autobiographical Recollections (Leslie) ; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”
Oxford in the Vacation.
Essays of Elia (1823)
“Riddle of destiny, who can show
What thy short visit meant, or know
What thy errand here below?”
On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (1827).
“It is good to love the unknown.”
Valentine's Day; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
“When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!”
Letter to Proctor (January 22, 1829), in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2000), p. 526
To the Editor of the Every-Day Book; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
“Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
Letter to Southey (August 9, 1815)
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
Witches, and Other Night Fears.
Essays of Elia (1823)
A Vision Of Repentance, as quoted in Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.
“A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.”
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)