Laurence Sterne Quotes
1713 – 1768
Irish-born English novelist, author of "Tristram Shandy".
26 quotesAbout Laurence Sterne on Wikipedia
“As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper.”
“'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
“I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.”
“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”
“I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.”
“When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.”
“The heart, in spite of the understanding, will always say too much.”
“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!”
“Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.”
“Man is false to himself and betrays his own succours ten times where nature does it once.”
