When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them” — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut;… — 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
Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said -… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — 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