H.A. Lamb Quotes

These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.

Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

Books think for me.

If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

Neat not gaudy.

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.

For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

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