Quotes from Laurence Sterne
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
- Laurence Sterne
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
- Laurence Sterne
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
- Laurence Sterne
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
- Laurence Sterne
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
- Laurence Sterne
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
- Laurence Sterne
An English man does not travel to see English men.
- Laurence Sterne
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
- Laurence Sterne
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
- Laurence Sterne
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
- Laurence Sterne
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
- Laurence Sterne
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- Laurence Sterne