Laurence Sterne

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

— Laurence Sterne

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

— Laurence Sterne

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and…

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Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit…

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If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

— Laurence Sterne

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -…

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An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the…

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I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a…

— Laurence Sterne

There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless…

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“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at…

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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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When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is…

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“We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them”

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When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth…

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Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely,…

— Laurence Sterne

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

— Laurence Sterne

He shall not die, by G, criedmy uncle Toby. MThe ACCUSING SPIRIT which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd…

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“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to…

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We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances…

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Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation…

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“was I Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, brought forth into this scurvy and disastrous world of ours.—I wish I had been born in the…

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Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they…

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A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

— Laurence Sterne