Mary Lamb quotes

“A child is fed with milk and praise.”
-- Mary Lamb

Source : Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1908). “Tales for children. Poetry for children. Poems. Dramatic works”

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“It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.”
-- Mary Lamb

Source : Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1905). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1834”

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“A child's a plaything for an hour.”
-- Mary Lamb

Source : Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb “Works: The essays of Elia”

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“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”

“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.”

“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

“Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.”

“A babe is fed with milk and praise.”

“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.”

Source : Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”

“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”