💥 Top 20 Quotes of Laurence Sterne - Novelist

Top 20 Quotes of Laurence Sterne:
✹ I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
✹ Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
✹ Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
✹ What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.
✹ Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
✹ Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.
✹ So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse 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?
✹ A coward never forgives.
✹ The best hearts are ever the bravest.
✹ In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
✹ Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
✹ Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
✹ Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
✹ To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.
✹ I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
✹ An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
✹ Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
✹ One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
✹ Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
✹ 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.
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🖎 Author: Laurence Sterne
♛ Career: Novelist
📅 Life: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
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