Top 41 Quotes by Laurence Sterne

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

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

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

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.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

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

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.