Top 41 Quotes by Laurence Sterne

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

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.

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.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.