Lady Caroline Lamb Quotes

• 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

  Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The works of Lady Caroline Lamb”

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• Nature formed me fierce.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Passion, Fierce, Intensity

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1816). “Glenarvon ...”, p.197

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• 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

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1822). “Graham Hamilton”, p.5

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• 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

  Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)”

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• He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Sarcastic, Mad, Dangerous

  Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (1932) ch. 6.

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• It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Love, Art, Ignorance

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Mind, Ambitious, Common

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Imagination, Mind, World

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1816). “Glenarvon”, p.198

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• 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

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Children, Parent, Sin

  Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)”

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• a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Weakness, Vices, Determined

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1822). “Graham Hamilton”, p.6

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