Quotes by : Laurence Sterne

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst....

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

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

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

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

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

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests....

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold....

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can....