Quote #6
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
More from Charles Lamb
- Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.
- 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…
- Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which t…
- Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
- For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
- For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
- I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days- All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
- A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor.