Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
