Quotes by : Laurence Sterne

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

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this....

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the....

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

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates,....

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

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

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

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every....