Time Quotes by Laurence Sterne

9 Time quotes by Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne’s take on time shines through in nine witty, sometimes absurd lines. The brevity of the set makes it a convenient read for anyone wanting a taste of his 18th‑century satire without a long commitment.

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Now or never was the time.

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

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“The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me: she look’d down—a silence…

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Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth…

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to…

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If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness…

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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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What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in…

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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!…

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The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one…

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The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

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

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I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…

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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;…

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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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