Laurence Sterne Quotes

Ho! 'tis the time of salads.

sucios subterfugios maquinados en la mezquindad para anular el verdadero espíritu de todas las leyes,

If Nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece,—must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?—Whip me such stoics, great Governor of Nature! said I to myself:—wherever thy providence shall place me for the trials of my virtue;—whatever is my danger,—whatever is my situation,—let me feel the movements which rise out of it, and which belong to me as a man,—and, if I govern them as a good one, I will trust the issues to thy justice; for thou hast made us, and not we ourselves.

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.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

" — I won't go about to argue the point with you, — 'tis so, — and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, "That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

« Je suis persuadé que chaque fois qu'un homme sourit et mieux encore lorsqu'il rit, il ajoute quelque chose à la durée de sa vie.»

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

A man who laughs will never be dangerous.

As far as my observation has reached, and the circle of it is by no means, a narrow one — an hard heart is always a cowardly heart. — Generosity and courage are associate virtues; and the character which possesses the former, must, in the nature of mental arrangements, be adorned with the latter. If I perceive a man to be capable of doing a mean action, — if I see him imperious and tyrannical; if he takes advantage of the weak to oppress, or of the poor to grind, or of the downcast to insult, — or is continually on the hunt after excuses not to do what he ought, — I determine such a man, though he may have fought fifty duels, to be a coward. — It is by no means a proof that a man is brave because he does not refuse to fight; — for we all know that cowards have fought, nay, — that cowards have conquered, — but a coward never performed a generous or a noble action: — and thou hast my authority to say, — and thou mightest find a worse, that a hard-hearted character never was a brave one. I say, thou mayst justly call such a man a coward, — and, if he should be spirited into a resentment of thy words — fear him not. — Tristram shall brighten his armour, and scour the rust from off his spear, and aid thee in the combat.

... irfanımızın engin harmanının emekçileri ... çoğu ik'le ve tik'le biten daha elli dalda, son iki yüzyıldır ya da daha uzun bir süredir, mükemmeliyetinin o doruğuna doğru emekliyor. Son yedi yıl içindeki gelişmelere bakarak bir tahminde bulunabilirsek, bu doruk ise pek de uzaklarda olmamalı.
Bu sonuç gerçekleştiğinde, umulur ki, her türlü yazı son bulacak; her türlü yazının son bulması her türlü okumayı yok edecek; ve zamanla, -her tür bilgi ortadan kalkacak, ve, ardından, her şeye yeni baştan başlamamız gerekecek. Bir başka deyişle, tam başladığımız yere geri döneceğiz.

Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about they neck, are flying over our heads light like clouds of a windy day, never to return more — every thing presses on — whilst thou art twisting that lock, — see! it grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make. — — Heaven have mercy on us both!

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