319 Quotes by Laurence Sterne

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.