Laurence Sterne quotes

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Laurence Sterne)
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. View quote
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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. View quote
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. View quote
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. View quote
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For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies. View quote
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. View quote
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! View quote
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. View quote
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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it. View quote
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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. (Laurence Sterne)
They order, said I, this matter better in France. View quote
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad. View quote
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I am sick as a horse. View quote
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. View quote
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God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb. View quote
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Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one. View quote
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The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. View quote
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Go, poor devil, get thee gone Why should I hurt thee This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. View quote
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. View quote
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Now or never was the time. (Laurence Sterne)
Great wits jump. View quote
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Human nature is the same in all professions. View quote
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Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? View quote
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We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it. View quote
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