Famous Laurence Sterne Quotes

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

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

  • Human nature is the same in all professions. – Laurence Sterne

    Human nature is the same in all professions.– Laurence Sterne

  • It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one…. – Laurence Sterne

    It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one….– Laurence Sterne

  • Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. – Laurence Sterne

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

  • I begin with writing the first sentence-”and trusting to Almighty God for the second. – Laurence Sterne

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

  • We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them – Laurence Sterne

    We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them– Laurence Sterne