Laurence Sterne Quotes

Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the wors...

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every...

—all I can say of the matter, is—That he has either a pumkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,...

Great wits jump

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

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

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the...

Now or never was the time.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one c...

A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for con...

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conv...

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

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

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

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perce...

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as ...

Crack, crack—crack, crack—crack, crack—so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)—and t...

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, c...

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the...

Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature ...

Human nature is the same in all professions.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in th...

Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the fines...

I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting th...