Quotes from Laurence Sterne
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- Laurence Sterne
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
- Laurence Sterne
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
- Laurence Sterne
An English man does not travel to see English men.
- Laurence Sterne
God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
- Laurence Sterne
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
- Laurence Sterne
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
- Laurence Sterne
They order, said I, this matter better in France.
- Laurence Sterne
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
- Laurence Sterne
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.
- 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