"...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as……" — Laurence Sterne

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

— Laurence Sterne

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107 Quotes by Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne has 107 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Chance is the providence of adventurers.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart…
So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or…
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to…
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which…
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the…
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window…
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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