Writer Quotes by Laurence Sterne

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

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

— Laurence Sterne

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

— Laurence Sterne

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

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

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

— Laurence Sterne

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

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

— Laurence Sterne

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

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

— Laurence Sterne

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

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

— Laurence Sterne

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love…

— Laurence Sterne

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…

— Laurence Sterne

“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with…

— Laurence Sterne