"Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading."
— Laurence Sterne

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything."
— Laurence Sterne

"Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail."
— Laurence Sterne

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

"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."
— Laurence Sterne

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
"
— Laurence Sterne

"Alas, poor YORICK!"
— Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)

"You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
— Laurence Sterne

"There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him."
— Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy: An Authoritative Text, the Author on the Novel, Criticism)

"Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?"
— Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition)

"Memiliki rasa hormat pada diri sendiri akan membimbing moral kita,
Memiliki rasa hormat terhadap orang lain akan menjaga sikap sopan santun kita."
— Laurence Sterne

"...For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies..."
— Laurence Sterne

"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."
— Laurence Sterne

"All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark."
— Laurence Sterne

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this span of life by him who interests his heart in everything."
— Laurence Sterne

"Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!"
— Laurence Sterne (A Sentimental Journey)

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

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything."
— Laurence Sterne