--- title: "10 Said Quotes By Laurence Sterne" description: "10 Said quotes by Laurence Sterne. Plus more from Laurence Sterne and more Said sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/laurence-sterne-1405_better_they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in_480156.jpg" --- > [They order," said I, "this matter better in France.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in-france/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/laurence-sterne-1405_better_they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in_480156.jpg) > [Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/is-this-a-fit-time-said-my-father-to-himself-to-talk-of-pensions-and/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/laurence-sterne-1405_father_is-this-a-fit-time-said-my-father-to-him_2559043.jpg) > [Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/disguise-thyself-as-thou-wilt-still-slavery-said-i-still-thou-art-a/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/laurence-sterne-1405_art_disguise-thyself-as-thou-wilt-still-slav_520789.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) > [Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/madness-is-consistent-which-is-more-than-can-be-said-for-poor-reason/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c77/laurence-sterne-1405_consistent_madness-is-consistent-which-is-more-than_730220.jpg) > [Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/ten-cooks-shops-and-all-within-three-minutes-driving-one-would-think/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c75/laurence-sterne-1405_cooking_ten-cooks-shops-and-all-within-three-min_2282965.jpg) > [If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/if-death-said-my-father-reasoning-with-himself-is-nothing-but-the/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/741/laurence-sterne-1405_body_if-death-said-my-father-reasoning-with-h_2645371.jpg) > [The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/the-improbability-of-a-malicious-story-serves-but-to-help-forward-the/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23c/laurence-sterne-1405_absurd_the-improbability-of-a-malicious-story-s_2235588.jpg) > [In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/in-part-of-lord-kames-elements-of-criticism-he-says-that-music/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c45/laurence-sterne-1405_add_in-part-of-lord-kames-elements-of-critic_1503480.jpg) > [As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/as-monarchs-have-a-right-to-call-in-the-specie-of-a-state-and-raise/) [Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-sterne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/laurence-sterne-1405_certain_as-monarchs-have-a-right-to-call-in-the_1573388.jpg) ## Other authors on Said ## 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": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/laurence-sterne/#itemlist", "name": "10 Said Quotes By Laurence Sterne", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "They order,\" said I, \"this matter better in France.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laurence Sterne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in-france/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/laurence-sterne-1405_better_they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in_480156.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/laurence-sterne-1405_better_they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in_480156.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/laurence-sterne-1405_better_they-order-said-i-this-matter-better-in_480156.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They order,\" said I, \"this matter better in France.” — Laurence Sterne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laurence Sterne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/is-this-a-fit-time-said-my-father-to-himself-to-talk-of-pensions-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/laurence-sterne-1405_father_is-this-a-fit-time-said-my-father-to-him_2559043.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/laurence-sterne-1405_father_is-this-a-fit-time-said-my-father-to-him_2559043.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/laurence-sterne-1405_father_is-this-a-fit-time-said-my-father-to-him_2559043.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?” — Laurence Sterne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,\" said I, \"still thou art a bitter draught.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laurence Sterne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/disguise-thyself-as-thou-wilt-still-slavery-said-i-still-thou-art-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/laurence-sterne-1405_art_disguise-thyself-as-thou-wilt-still-slav_520789.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/laurence-sterne-1405_art_disguise-thyself-as-thou-wilt-still-slav_520789.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/laurence-sterne-1405_art_disguise-thyself-as-thou-wilt-still-slav_520789.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,\" said I, \"still thou art a bitter draught.” — Laurence Sterne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laurence Sterne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-sterne/every-thing-in-this-world-said-my-father-is-big-with-jest-and-has-wit/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/laurence-sterne-1405_bigs_every-thing-in-this-world-said-my-father_1241632.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/laurence-sterne-1405_bigs_every-thing-in-this-world-said-my-father_1241632.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/laurence-sterne-1405_bigs_every-thing-in-this-world-said-my-father_1241632.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we…” — Laurence Sterne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. 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They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. 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