Quotes By Laurence Sterne

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

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

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

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.