There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? — 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… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let… — 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
We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -… — 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
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind… — 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
