Lady Caroline Lamb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Sarcastic #Mad #Dangerous
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Weakness #Vices #Determined
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Real #Long #Suffering
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ...
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Mind #Ambitious #Common
Nature formed me fierce ...
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Passion #Fierce #Intensity
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Life #Slave #Destruction
my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Imagination #Mind #World
There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Happiness #Home #Ideas
the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Children #Parent #Sin
I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.
-- Lady Caroline Lamb

#Passion #Heart #Judgment

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