--- title: "16 Ifs Quotes By Laurence Sterne" description: "16 Ifs quotes by Laurence Sterne. Plus more from Laurence Sterne and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/laurence-sterne-1405_action_if-ever-i-do-a-mean-action-it-must-be-in_976973.jpg" --- > [If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/if-ever-i-do-a-mean-action-it-must-be-in-some-interval-betwixt-one/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/laurence-sterne-1405_action_if-ever-i-do-a-mean-action-it-must-be-in_976973.jpg) > [If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/if-a-man-has-a-right-to-be-proud-of-anything-it-is-of-a-good-action/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ab/laurence-sterne-1405_action_if-a-man-has-a-right-to-be-proud-of-anyt_3188593.jpg) > [A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/a-man-who-values-a-good-night-s-rest-will-not-lie-down-with-enmity-in/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/laurence-sterne-1405_enmity_a-man-who-values-a-good-night-s-rest-wil_1240676.jpg) > [Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/simplicity-is-the-great-friend-to-nature-and-if-i-would-be-proud-of/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/567/laurence-sterne-1405_alliances_simplicity-is-the-great-friend-to-nature_534020.jpg) > [Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/every-thing-in-this-world-said-my-father-is-big-with-jest-and-has-wit/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/laurence-sterne-1405_bigs_every-thing-in-this-world-said-my-father_1241632.jpg) > [Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/positiveness-is-a-most-absurd-foible-if-you-are-in-the-right-it/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/laurence-sterne-1405_absurd_positiveness-is-a-most-absurd-foible-if_2930566.jpg) > [If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/if-thou-art-rich-then-show-the-greatness-of-thy-fortune-or-what-is/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/laurence-sterne-1405_art_if-thou-art-rich-then-show-the-greatness_3149494.jpg) > [So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/so-fruitful-is-slander-in-variety-of-expedients-to-satiate-as-well-as/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/laurence-sterne-1405_caution_so-fruitful-is-slander-in-variety-of-exp_456640.jpg) > [ \[I have\] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/i-have-been-in-love-with-one-princess-or-another-almost-all-my-life/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e5/laurence-sterne-1405_action_i-have-been-in-love-with-one-princess-or_1659185.jpg) > [ I know as well as any one, \[the devil\] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/i-know-as-well-as-any-one-the-devil-is-an-adversary-whom-if-we-resist/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/laurence-sterne-1405_adversaries_i-know-as-well-as-any-one-the-devil-is-a_1653656.jpg) > [If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/if-there-is-an-evil-in-this-world-it-is-sorrow-and-heaviness-of-heart/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/laurence-sterne-1405_death_if-there-is-an-evil-in-this-world-it-is_1520166.jpg) > [If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/if-time-like-money-could-be-laid-by-while-one-was-not-using-it-there/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/laurence-sterne-1405_coin_if-time-like-money-could-be-laid-by-whil_459564.jpg) > [There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/there-are-some-tempers-how-shall-i-describe-them-formed-either-of/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c7/laurence-sterne-1405_animals_there-are-some-tempers-how-shall-i-descr_2443233.jpg) > [Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/ye-whose-clay-cold-heads-and-luke-warm-hearts-can-argue-down-or-mask/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/laurence-sterne-1405_arguing_ye-whose-clay-cold-heads-and-luke-warm-h_3214496.jpg) > [You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/you-can-t-make-theater-happen-without-actors-the-actor-is-the-central/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/laurence-sterne-1405_actors_you-can-t-make-theater-happen-without-ac_2361593.jpg) > [Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/conversation-is-a-traffick-and-if-you-enter-into-it-without-some/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/laurence-sterne-1405_accounts_conversation-is-a-traffick-and-if-you-en_280475.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Laurence Sterne > [The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/the-insolence-of-base-minds-in-success-is-boundless-and-would-scarce/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [The world is ashamed of being virtuous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/the-world-is-ashamed-of-being-virtuous/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/digressions-incontestably-are-the-sunshine-they-are-the-life-the-soul/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/i-was-acquainted-once-with-a-gallant-soldier-who-assured-me-that-his/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/a-man-s-body-and-his-mind-with-the-utmost-reverence-to-both-i-speak/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/when-the-affections-so-kindly-break-loose-joy-is-another-name-for/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/sweet-pliability-of-man-s-spirit-that-can-at-once-surrender-itself-to/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/philosophy-has-a-fine-saying-for-everything-for-death-it-has-an/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/dear-sensibility-source-inexhausted-of-all-that-s-precious-in-our/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/the-best-friends-in-the-world-may-differ-sometimes/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/beauty-has-so-many-charms-one-knows-not-how-to-speak-against-it-and/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [The best hearts are ever the bravest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/the-best-hearts-are-ever-the-bravest/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/hail-the-small-courtesies-of-life-for-smooth-do-ye-make-the-road-of/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/there-are-a-thousand-unnoticed-openings-continued-my-father-which-let/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) > [“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/button-holes-there-is-something-lively-in-the-very-idea-of-em-and/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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