Charles Lamb Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834
Birthday: February 10
Death: December 27
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.
topic: Kings, Eye, Animal, Resemblance, Human Hands
