Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me: she look’d down—a silence… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in… — 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
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — 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
