Best Laurence Sterne Quotations
- Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Darkness
- People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. Care
- So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death… Death
- The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. Accomplished
- Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. Add
- What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of… Button
- When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a… Advantage
- When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. Flies
- Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. Conversation
- In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance… Action
- It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at… Candle
- There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. Absurd
- Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. Digressions
- Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore… All
- Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. Conscience
- 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 trace… All
- I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. Almighty
- Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Book
- Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… Absence
- I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and… Acquaintance
- Human nature is the same in all professions. All
- If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people… Body
- I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus: Accordingly
- Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers? Father
- The best hearts are ever the bravest. Best
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