Said Quotes by Laurence Sterne

10 Said quotes by Laurence Sterne

Here are ten of Laurence Sterne’s spoken lines, each bearing the playful, digressive humor that characterizes his prose. The selection is modest, but it provides a taste of his distinctive narrative voice.

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They order," said I, "this matter better in France.

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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

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Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

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Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but…

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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is…

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Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time…

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Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said -…

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The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,…

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In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more…

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As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so…

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Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

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Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long…

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Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

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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…

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The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

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Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation…

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The best hearts are ever the bravest.

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Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love…

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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…

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“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with…

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