“Il maggior piacere che conosco è fare una buona azione di nascosto e vederla scoprire per caso.”
citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, febbraio 1976
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Charles Lamb frasi celebri
da Streghe ed altri orrori notturni, 1821
da A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, in Essays of Elia
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Charles Lamb Frasi e Citazioni
“La credulità è la debolezza dell'uomo, ma la forza del bambino.”
da Witches, and Other Night Fears, in Essays of Elia, 1823
“La malattia, come ingrandisce le dimensioni di un uomo ai suoi stessi occhi!”
da The Convalescent, in Last Essays of Elia, 1833
da The Two Races of Men, in Essays of Elia, 1823
“Per aver sentimenti nobili, non è necessario esser nati nobili.”
citato in Le frasi celebri, Tex, n. 104, p. 2, ottobre 1972
“Un uomo che rifiuta le frittelle di mele non può avere un'anima pura.”
da A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, in Essays of Elia
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Charles Lamb: Frasi in inglese
“The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.”
Charles Lamb
Last Essays of Elia
Popular Fallacies: XIII, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
“I have something more to do than to feel.”
Letter to Coleridge (September 27, 1796), after the death of Lamb's mother.
“A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Charles Lamb
Last Essays of Elia
Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
“Not if I know myself at all.”
The Old and New Schoolmaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!”
Lamb's Suppers; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lamb in September 27, 1796. In his letter to Coleridge; after the family tragedy. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (1905).
“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.”
Captain Starkey; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lamb's letter to Coleridge in Oct. 24th, 1796. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1905). Letter 11.
Letter to Hazlitt (November 10, 1805)
“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”
cited in A Little Book of Aphorisms (New York: 1947), p. 186.
Letter to Wordsworth (1806); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Charles Lamb
Last Essays of Elia
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
Letter to Bernard Barton (April 6, 1825), on leaving his "33 years' desk" at the East India House.
“This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco!”
Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
Letter to Thomas Manning (December 26, 1815)
They nothing see,
Themselves except, and creatures like themselves,
That liv'd short-sighted, impotent to save.
So on their dissolute spirits, soon or late,
Destruction cometh 'like an armed man,'
Or like a dream of murder in the night,
Withering their mortal faculties, & breaking
The bones of all their pride.
Living Without God In The World (1798)
