Laurence Sterne Quotes

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Crack, crack—crack, crack—crack, crack—so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)—and this is Paris!—humph!—Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time— The first, the finest, the most brilliant— —The streets however are nasty; But it looks, I suppose, better than it smells—crack, crack—crack, crack—

Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Now or never was the time.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.