A biography for Charles Lambhasn’t been written yet.
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”
“Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.”
“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.”
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.”
“Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
“I could never hate anyone I knew.”