Quotes from Laurence Sterne
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
- Laurence Sterne
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
- Laurence Sterne
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
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.
- Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
- Laurence Sterne
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
- Laurence Sterne
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
- Laurence Sterne
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
- Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Sterne
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
- Laurence Sterne
For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
- Laurence Sterne
We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.
- Laurence Sterne