Laurence Sterne Quotes

The desire of life and health is implanted in man’s nature; — the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it:

Y en tanto un hombre cabalgue sobre su CABALLO DE JUGUETE tranquila y apaciblemente por el camino real sin obligarnos ni a usted ni a mí a montar tras él, — dígame, señor, ¿qué nos importa tal cosa a ninguno de los dos?

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.

la CRUELDAD y la COBARDÍA, rufianes gemelos contratados e instigados en la oscuridad por la MALICIA, señalarán al unísono todos tus errores y flaquezas: — — sí, mi querido muchacho, hasta los mejores ahí somos vulnerables; —

Moj život je neprekidna digresija, od kolevke pa do moga groba.

y en consecuencia cada uno hablará de la feria según le haya ido a su mercancía; — —

was I Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, brought forth into this scurvy and disastrous world of ours. — I wish I had been born in the Moon, or in any of the planets (except Jupiter or Saturn, because I never could bear cold weather) for it could not well have fared worse with me in any of them (though I will not answer for Venus) than it has in this vile, dirty planet of ours, — which o’ my conscience, with reverence be it spoken, I take to be made up of the shreds and clippings of the rest; — — not but the planet is well enough, provided a man could be born in it to a great title or to a great estate; or could anyhow contrive to be called up to public charges, and employments of dignity or power; — but that is not my case; — — and

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.

Y, en vuestro propio caso, recordad bien y meditad sobre esta sencilla distinción (no hacerla como es debido ha sido la perdición de miles): — que vuestra conciencia no es ley. —

-Benim türümdeki yazarların ressamlarla paylaştıkları ortak bir ilke vardır. -Aslına tümüyle sadık kalarak kopyalamak resimlerimizin yeterince çarpıcı olmalarını engellediğinde, bizler ehven-i şeri (kötünün iyisini) seçer ve güzelliği ihlal etmektense hakikatı tahrif etmeyi (değiştirmeyi) yeğleriz.

Cada uno hablará de la feria según le haya ido a su mercancía.

For I can truly say, that from the first hour I drew my breath in it, to this, that i can now scarce draw it at all, for an asthma I got in scating against the wind in Flanders; I have been the continual sport of what the world calls Fortune; and though i will not wrong her by saying, She has ever made me feel the weight of any great or signal evil; yet with all the good temper in the world, I affirm it of her, That in every stage of my life, and at every turn and corner where she could get fairly at me, the ungracious Duchess has pelted me with a set of as pitiful misadventures and cross accidents as ever small Hero sustained.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

la vida misma es inefable, ineluctable, y sin duda trágica, redimida sólo en la medida en que la redención es posible a través de la risa, que se burla del misterio; del amor, que lo acepta; y del arte, que lo recrea.

Secondly, When a man, thus represented, tells you in any particular instance, — That such a thing goes against his conscience, — always believe he means exactly the same thing, as when he tells you such a thing goes against his stomach; — a present want of appetite being generally the true cause of both. ‘In a word, — trust that man in nothing, who has not a Conscience in every thing.