Famous quotes containing the word sterne:
“Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours, and where they separate, depend upon it, tis for no other cause but quietness sake.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloathd at the same time; and if he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)