Truth Quotes by Laurence Sterne

8 Truth quotes by Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne’s reflections on truth appear in eight succinct statements. His witty, digressive voice offers a quick window into his playful yet earnest take on honesty. Ideal for a short, entertaining read.

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...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

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Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be…

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An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect…

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So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom…

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The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act…

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When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to…

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My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at…

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Endless is the search of truth.

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

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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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