Quote #43
A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
More from Charles Lamb
- Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
- A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; f…
- How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
- The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.
- Things in books' clothing.
- The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.
- Books think for me.
- I love to lose myself in other men's minds.