"There is nothing so awkward as courting a……" — Laurence Sterne
"There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages."
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107 Quotes by Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne has 107 quotes on this site.
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart…
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or…
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to…
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which…
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the…
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I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window…
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have…
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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what…
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in…
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me…
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but…
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I…
— Teri McKeever
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian…
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