Чарлз Лэм цитаты

„Воображение — кобылка резвая. Одно плохо: перед ней слишком много дорог.“

„Я ко всему могу относиться равнодушно. Равнодушно — но не одинаково.“

„Уж не знаю почему, но в ситуациях, где приличествует скорбеть, я не могу подавить в себе необыкновенную игривость мысли.“

„Как существо чувствующее я склонен к гармонии, однако как существу мыслящему она мне претит.“

“Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and irony itself-- do these things go out with life? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?”

Чарлз Лэм: Цитаты на английском языке

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”

Источник: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb

“Thou in such a cloud dost bind us,
That our worst foes cannot find us,
And ill fortune, that would thwart us,
Shoots at rovers, shooting at us;
While each man, through thy height'ning steam,
Does like a smoking Etna seem.”

“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Poor Relations.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

Charles Lamb книга Essays of Elia

The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).

“The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry”

Charles Lamb книга Essays of Elia

Источник: Essays of Elia

“Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trust
That He, who lays this mortal frame in dust,
Still hath the immortal Spirit in His keeping
In Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping”

Lamb's letter to Charles Cowden Clarke, in summer, 1821. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1905). Letter 263.