Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge… — 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
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — 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
![“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68d/laurence-sterne-1405_adversaries_i-know-as-well-as-any-one-the-devil-is-a_1653656.jpg)
