Charles Lamb Quotes

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.