To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“[O]f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident… — 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 Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“[O]f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I'm sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2fc/laurence-sterne-1405_books_o-f-all-the-several-ways-of-beginning-a_365521.jpg)
