Quote #10
A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor.
More from Charles Lamb
- For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
- Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
- Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
- This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realize…
- Nursed amid her [London's] noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with u…
- [Of Coleridge] His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
- The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
- I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.