Laurence Sterne Quotes

Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

First, Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his Creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours, and where they separate, depend upon it, ’tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with great beards - look as grave as you will - I'll make merry work with my button-holes - I shall have 'em all to myself - 'tis a maiden subject - I shall run foul of no man's wisdom or fine sayings in it.

que la naturaleza no era ni muy pródiga ni muy tacaña a la hora de conceder los dones del genio y de la inteligencia a sus habitantes; — sino que, como un progenitor juicioso, era moderadamente benigna con todos ellos;

A man my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.

I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, — but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

İşte senin yanlışın da burada, diye karşılık verirdi babam - çünkü Foro Scientiae (bilim alanı)'de CİNAYET diye bir şey yoktur, yalnızca ÖLÜM vvardır kardeşim.

Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it — And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma — let him get off as he can.

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out to us: so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.