Quote #19
When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'
More from Charles Lamb
- Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
- Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel.
- I came home for ever!
- Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but…
- Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down?
- He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
- Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.
- The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.