Charles and Mary Lamb Quotes

“If I had power I would sink the sea beneath the earth, rather than the good ship should be destroyed with all the precious souls within her.”

“Indeed she is the very queen of curds and cream.”

“Still methinks there is an air comes from her. What fine chisel could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, for I will kiss her.”

“No wonder; for the statue was indeed Hermione herself, the real, the living queen.”

“If I see anything tonight why I should not marry her, tomorrow in the congregation where I intended to wed her, there will I shame her.”

“Are you as wise as you are beautiful?”

“What thou see’st when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true-love take.”

“I lost the society and friendship of your brave father, whom I now desire more than my life once again to look upon.”

“She was a bad, ambitious woman, and so as her husband and herself could arrive at greatness, she cared not much by what means.”

″...oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence.”